Mount Birks

Mount Birks () is a conspicuous, pyramid-shaped

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...

rising to 1,035 m in Austa Ridge on

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

in Graham Land, and surmounting Spillane Fjord to the south and

Veselie Glacier Veselie Glacier ( bg, ледник Веселие, lednik Veselie, ) is the 7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier in Austa Ridge on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land situated southeast of Jorum Glacier and northeast of Chernoochene Glacier. I ...

to the north. In 1928 Sir Hubert Wilkins gave the name Mount Napier Birks, after Napier Birks of Adelaide, Australia, to two conspicuous, black peaks which he observed and photographed from the air as lying close north of his Crane Channel. This coast was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, but it has not been possible to identify Wilkins' Mount Napier Birks. Since Crane Channel was definitely identified as Crane Glacier, the

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(UK-APC) recommended in 1950 that the name, shortened to Mount Birks, be given to this conspicuous mountain lying close north of the mouth of the glacier. Mountains of Graham Land Oscar II Coast {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub