Foster, Mount

Mount Foster is a peak rising to 2,025 metres in the on in the . It is the highest point of the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
Wikipedia
Photo: Apcbg, Public domain.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,105 metres
  • Description: mountain in Smith Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
  • Also known as: “Mount Foster”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Antim Peak and Slaveykov Peak.

Peak
Photo: Cfrohlich, Public domain.
is the ice-covered peak rising to 1,995 m in on in the , . Situated 2.25 km and 1.3 km northeast of the summit Mount Foster and , respectively, 5.4 km south-southwest of , 16 km southwest of Cape Smith, and 16 km northeast of Cape James.

Peak
Photo: Cfrohlich, Public domain.
is a sharp peak rising to 1,674 m in on in the , . The feature is situated 2 km southwest of the summit Mount Foster, to which it is linked by , 1.12 km north-northeast of , 2.4 km east of and 3.45 km northwest of .

Peak
is a sharp, ice-covered peak rising to 1689 metres in the on in the , . It overlooks to the southeast.

Foster, Mount

Latitude
-62.99272° or 62° 59′ 34″ south
Longitude
-62.55405° or 62° 33′ 15″ west
Elevation
2,105 metres (6,906 feet)
Open location code
379V2C4W+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6054394329
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6633369
Wiki­data ID
Q1950472
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Satellite Map

Discover Foster, Mount from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Venetian—“Foster, Mount” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Foster”
  • Chinese: “佛斯特山”
  • Chinese: “福斯特山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Foster”
  • French: “Mount Foster”
  • German: “Mount Foster”
  • Hebrew: “הר פוסטר”
  • Italian: “Monte Foster”
  • Japanese: “フォスター山”
  • Ladin: “Mount Foster”
  • Latvian: “Fostera kalns”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Foster”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Foster”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Foster”
  • Spanish: “Foster, Monte”
  • Spanish: “Monte Foster”
  • Swedish: “Foster”
  • Swedish: “Mount Foster”
  • Turkish: “Foster Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Фостер (гора)”
  • Ukrainian: “Фостер”
  • Venetian: “Monte Foster”

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