Mount Adam (

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: "Monte Independencia/Monte Beaufort") is a mountain on

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, part of the Hill Cove Mountains range. It is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is the second highest in the islands. It has the remains of glacial

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s on it, and is only lower than

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, the highest peak of the

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. Its summit is at . It is south west of Mount Edgeworth. The closest settlements are Hill Cove to the North, and

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to the South. As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some

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. The handful of mountains over have: :''"pronounced corries with small

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s at their bases,

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ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and

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s were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate''"Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands''

References

* Stonehouse, B (ed.) ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans'' (2002, ) {{Lists of hills of the Falkland Islands

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