Mount Darnley

Mount Darnley is a mountain, 1,160 metres high, in the south-central portion of in the South Sandwich Islands off Antarctica. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for E.R. Darnley.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bristol Island and Mount Sourabaya.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
is an uninhabited island in the South Sandwich Islands, an archipelago in the Southern Ocean. The island is almost entirely surrounded by ice cliffs and largely covered with ice.

Volcano
is a mountain 1 nautical mile northwest of Mount Darnley, , in the South Sandwich Islands. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971.

Mount Darnley

Latitude
-59.04043° or 59° 2′ 26″ south
Longitude
-26.53344° or 26° 32′ 0″ west
Elevation
1,100 metres (3,609 feet)
Open location code
39GMXF58+RJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1826741216
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
3426517
Wiki­data ID
Q6920365
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Mount Darnley” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: mont Darnley
  • Cebuano: Mount Darnley
  • Chinese: 達恩利山
  • Dutch: Mount Darnley
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل مونت دارنلى
  • German: Mount Darnley
  • Ladin: Mount Darnley
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Mount Darnley
  • Spanish: Monte Darnley
  • Swedish: Mount Darnley

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