Mount Roots
Mount Roots is a mainly snow-covered mountain on South Georgia, standing near the head of Nordenskjold Glacier, 6 kilometres ESE of Mount Paget. Its western peak rises to 2,158 metres; its eastern peak to 2,270 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nordenskjöld Peak.
Nordenskjöld Peak
Peak
Nordenskjöld Peak is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain, 2,355 m, which rises at the head of Nordenskjöld Glacier and stands close east of Mount Roots in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia.
Mount Roots
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,280 metres
- Description: mountain in South Georgia
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.47749° or 54° 28′ 39″ southLongitude
-36.41637° or 36° 24′ 59″ westElevation
2,280 metres (7,480 feet)Open location code
39Q5GHFM+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 9116187990OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Roots from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Roots” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Roots”
- Chinese: “魯特斯山”
- Dutch: “Mount Roots”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت روتس”
- German: “Mount Roots”
- Ladin: “Mount Roots”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Roots”
- Spanish: “Monte Roots”
- Swedish: “Mount Roots”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Roots”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.