Mount Larsen
Mount Larsen is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who named it for Captain C.A. Larsen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Thule Island.
Thule Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
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Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.
Mount Larsen
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 710 metres
- Description: mountain in South Sandwich Islands
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.43892° or 59° 26′ 20″ southLongitude
-27.37039° or 27° 22′ 13″ westElevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)Open location code
39GJHJ6H+CROpenStreetMap ID
node 3994067157OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Venetian—“Mount Larsen” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Menez Larsen”
- Cebuano: “Mount Larsen”
- Chinese: “拉森山”
- Dutch: “Mount Larsen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت لارسين”
- French: “Mont Larsen”
- German: “Mount Larsen”
- Italian: “Monte Larsen”
- Japanese: “ラーセン山”
- Ladin: “Mount Larsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Larsen”
- Spanish: “Monte Larsen”
- Swedish: “Mount Larsen”
- Venetian: “Monte Larsen”
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