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on the west, standing 7 nautical miles (13 km) east-northeast of Cape Tuxen and dominating the area between

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and Bussey Glaciers on Kyiv Peninsula 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 ...

. Discovered by the

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, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for R. Admiral

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, American Arctic explorer and first to attain the

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, in 1909. In 1976, three men in an expedition died while climbing the mountain.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

Martha Henriques: "A Frozen Graveyard: The Sad Tales of Antarctica’s Deaths," BBC Future, 13 September 2018
Mountains of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub

See also

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