Mount Drygalski is an ice-free hill, high, standing southeast of
Atlas Cove
Atlas Cove is a cove on the north coast of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, and is entered between the base of the Laurens Peninsula and Rogers Head.
It was named by American sealers after the schooner seal hunting ...
, near the northwest end of
Heard Island in the southern
Indian Ocean. The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign
Washington Irving Chambers aboard the
USS ''Marion'' during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the
American sealing bark ''Trinity''. It was more accurately charted and named by the
First German Antarctica Expedition
The ''Gauss'' expedition of 1901–1903 (also known as the ''Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901–1903)'' was the first German expedition to Antarctica. It was led by geologist Erich von Drygalski in the ship , named after the mathematician and p ...
in 1902. Professor
Erich von Drygalski, the leader of the German Expedition, was a member of the landing party which investigated the area between
Rogers Head
Rogers Head () is a conspicuous headland marking the north extremity of the peninsula between Atlas Cove and Corinthian Bay on the north coast of Heard Island. Named for the Rogers family of New London, Connecticut, including Captain Erasmus Dar ...
and the summit of this feature.
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References
External links
Map of Mount Drygalski and the northwestern coast of Heard IslandMap of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including all major topographical features
Mountains of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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