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Mount Demaria () is a mountain with precipitous sides, high, rising immediately southeast of
Cape Tuxen Cape Tuxen () is a rocky cape forming the south side of the entrance to Waddington Bay on Kyiv Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 ...
on the west coast of
Kyiv Peninsula Kyiv Peninsula (, ) is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay to t ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
. It was probably first sighted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1903–05 and was named by
Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...
for the Demaria brothers, French developers of an anastigmatic lens used by the expedition's photographic section. The first ascent was on 22 July 1979, and was completed by R. Ashley, R. Bowler, K. Bryne, D. Forsyth UK. The second ascent took place on 1 October 1979 by M. Brettle, A. Hawkins, J. Kerr, and J. Nutt.


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Mountains of Graham Land Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub