Walton Mountains
Walton Mountains is an isolated chain of three predominantly snow-covered mountain masses, rising to about 1,450 m at Mount McArthur, extending south from Schubert Inlet for 25 miles in central Alexander Island, Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include McArthur, Mount.
McArthur, Mount
Peak
Mount McArthur is, at about 1,450 metres, the highest peak in the Walton Mountains of southern Alexander Island, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Malcolm McArthur, a British Antarctic Survey geophysicist at Stonington Island, 1971–73, who worked in northern Alexander Island.
Walton Mountains
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,450 metres
- Description: mountain group on Alexander Island, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-71.20553° or 71° 12′ 20″ southLongitude
-70.33707° or 70° 20′ 14″ westElevation
1,450 metres (4,757 feet)Open location code
27WFQMV7+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9253370036OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Walton Mountains” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Walton Mountains”
- Chinese: “沃爾頓山脈”
- Dutch: “Walton Mountains”
- German: “Walton Mountains”
- Hebrew: “הרי וולטון”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Walton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Walton Mountains”
- Swedish: “Walton Mountains”
- Venetian: “Walton Mountains”
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