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Mount Martine

Coordinates: 69°45′S 75°5′W / 69.750°S 75.083°W / -69.750; -75.083
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Mount Martine is a massive mountain, about 800 metres (2,600 ft) high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, overlooking the north shore of Charcot Island, south of Cheesman Island, in the east Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica.

History

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It was discovered and roughly mapped on 11 January 1910, by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him in association with Mount Monique and the Marion Nunataks after his daughter, Martine. It was photographed from the air on 9 February 1947 in the course of the US Navy's Operation Highjump and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.[1] The mountain forms part of the Marion Nunataks Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA No.170) designated as such for its biological values.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Mount Martine". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
  2. ^ "Marion Nunataks, Charcot Island, Antarctic Peninsula" (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 170: Measure 4, Annex. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2008. Retrieved 2013-09-10.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Martine". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

69°45′S 75°5′W / 69.750°S 75.083°W / -69.750; -75.083