Mount Fitz Roy

Monte Fitz Roy is a mountain in , on the border between and . It is located in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, near village and . It was first climbed in 1952 by French alpinists Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,405 metres
  • Description: mountain of Argentina and Chile
  • Also known as: Cerro Chaltel”, “Cerro Fitz-Roy”, “El Chaltén”, “Fitz Roy”, “Monte Chaltén”, “Monte Fitz Roy”, “Monte Fitz Roy / Cerro Chaltén”, “Mount Fitroy”, and “Mount Fitzroy

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aguja Poincenot and Aguja Saint Exupery.

Peak
Photo: Winky, CC BY 2.0.
is a peak.

Peak
The is a mountain spear located near the Cerro Chaltén in the in , . The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.

Peak
is a glaciated mountain of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in Patagonia, located on the border between Chile and Argentina, west of Mount Fitz Roy, west of Cerro Domo Blanco and in the northern part of the Chaltén mountain range.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chaltén Mountain Range Natural Site, Chile and Circo de los Altares.

Locality
The Chaltén Mountain Range Natural Site is a natural site part of the in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, .

Locality
The is a cirque glacier of the Patagonian Andes, located in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, where and Mount Fitz Roy can be seen from its western sides.

Mount Fitz Roy

Latitude
-49.27125° or 49° 16′ 17″ south
Longitude
-73.04321° or 73° 2′ 36″ west
Elevation
3,405 metres (11,171 feet)
Open location code
4728PXH4+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4121988557
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3855542
Wiki­data ID
Q215138
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Fitz Roy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جبل فيز روي
  • Arabic: سيرو شالتين
  • Armenian: Ֆիցռոյ
  • Asturian: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Basque: Fitz Roy
  • Bengali: ফিটস রয়
  • Bulgarian: Монте Фицрой
  • Catalan: Cerro Chaltén
  • Catalan: Fitz Roy
  • Catalan: Mont Fitz Roy
  • Catalan: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Cebuano: Cerro Fitzroy
  • Chinese: 菲茨罗伊峰
  • Czech: Cerro Chaltén
  • Czech: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Czech: Cerro Fitzroy
  • Czech: Fitz Roy
  • Czech: Mount FitzRoy
  • Danish: Fitz Roy
  • Dutch: Cerro Chalten
  • Dutch: Cerro Chaltén
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل فيز روى
  • Esperanto: Cerro Chalten
  • Esperanto: Cerro Chaltén
  • Finnish: Cerro Chaltén
  • Finnish: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Finnish: Monte Fitz Roy
  • French: Fitz Roy
  • French: Fitz-Roy
  • French: Mont Fitz Roy
  • German: Cerro Chalten
  • German: Cerro Chaltén
  • German: Fitz Roy
  • German: Mount FitzRoy
  • Hebrew: פיץ רוי
  • Hungarian: Cerro Chaltén
  • Italian: Cerro Chaltén
  • Italian: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Italian: Fitz Roy
  • Italian: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Japanese: フィッツ・ロイ
  • Japanese: フィッツ・ロイ山
  • Korean: 피츠로이산
  • Ladin: Mont Fitz Roy
  • Lithuanian: Čaltenas
  • Lithuanian: Ficrojus
  • Lithuanian: Fitz Roy
  • Lithuanian: Fitzroy kalnas
  • Malay: Gunung Cerro Chaltén
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Fitz Roy
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Monte Fitzroy
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Monte Fitzroy
  • Norwegian: Monte Fitzroy
  • Occitan (post 1500): Cerro Chaltén
  • Occitan (post 1500): Mont Fitz Roy
  • Ossetian: Серро-Фицрой
  • Ossetian: Фицрой
  • Persian: فیتز روی
  • Polish: Cerro Chalten
  • Polish: Cerro Chaltén
  • Polish: Fitz Roy
  • Portuguese: Cerro Chaltén
  • Portuguese: Cerro Fitzroy
  • Portuguese: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Portuguese: Monte fitzroy
  • Russian: Фицрой
  • Slovak: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Slovenian: Cerro Chaltén
  • Slovenian: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Slovenian: Fitz Roy
  • Slovenian: Fitzroy
  • Slovenian: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Slovenian: Mount Fitz Roy
  • Spanish: Cerro Chalten
  • Spanish: Cerro Chaltén
  • Spanish: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Spanish: Cerro Fitzroy
  • Spanish: Chalten
  • Spanish: Chaltén
  • Spanish: Fitz Roy
  • Spanish: Monte Fitz Roy
  • Spanish: Monte Fitzroy
  • Swahili: Fitz Roy
  • Swedish: Cerro Chaltén
  • Swedish: Fitz Roy
  • Turkish: Cerro Chalten
  • Turkish: Cerro Chaltén
  • Turkish: Cerro Fitz Roy
  • Turkish: Cerro fitzroy
  • Turkish: Fitz Roy Dağı
  • Turkish: FitzRoy Dağı
  • Ukrainian: Серро-Чальтен
  • Ukrainian: Фіц-Рой
  • Ukrainian: Фіцрой
  • Ukrainian: Чальтен
  • Venetian: Cerro Chaltén

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