Mount Harmer
Mount Harmer is an ice-covered peak, 1,115 metres high, in the north-central portion of Cook Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir Sidney F.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Island and Mount Holdgate.
Cook Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.
Mount Holdgate
Peak
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Mount Holdgate is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Corbeta Uruguay base is situated 7 km west of Mount Harmer.
Mount Harmer
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,115 metres
- Description: mountain in South Sandwich Islands
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.43751° or 59° 26′ 15″ southLongitude
-27.18218° or 27° 10′ 56″ westElevation
1,115 metres (3,658 feet)Open location code
39GJHR69+X4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1826741242OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Harmer from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Breton to Ukrainian—“Mount Harmer” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Menez Harmer”
- Cebuano: “Mount Harmer”
- Chinese: “哈默山”
- Dutch: “Mount Harmer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت هارمير”
- French: “Mont Harmer”
- German: “Mount Harmer”
- Japanese: “ハーマー山”
- Ladin: “Mount Harmer”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Harmer”
- Spanish: “Monte Harmer”
- Swedish: “Mount Harmer”
- Ukrainian: “Гармер (гора)”
- Ukrainian: “Гармер”
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