Mount Antell
Mount Antell is a mountain rising above 610 metres, overlooking the north coast of South Georgia midway between Bjelland Point and Hercules Point. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Georg Antell, foreman of the South Georgia Whaling Company station at nearby Leith Harbour, 1913–39.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harper Peak and Atherton Peak.
Harper Peak
Peak
Harper Peak is a peak, 785 metres high, standing east of Fortuna Peak and Fortuna Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.
Atherton Peak
Peak
Atherton Peak is a peak rising to about 500 metres east of Fortuna Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations, 1929–30, and named after Noel Atherton, cartographer in the Admiralty Hydrographic Office at the time, later chief Civil Hydrographic Officer, 1951–62.
Coronda Peak
Peak
Coronda Peak is a peak over 610 metres high, standing north of Leith Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears on a chart showing the results of surveys by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927 and 1929, and is probably after the SS Coronda whose captain was of assistance to the survey party.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leith Harbour and Husvik.
Leith Harbour
Village
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh.
Husvik
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour.
Mount Antell
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 610 metres
- Description: mountain in South Georgia
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.12023° or 54° 7′ 13″ southLongitude
-36.70652° or 36° 42′ 24″ westElevation
610 metres (2,001 feet)Open location code
39Q5V7HV+W9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9153301373OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Mount Antell” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “安特爾山”
- Dutch: “Mount Antell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت انتيل”
- German: “Mount Antell”
- Ladin: “Mount Antell”
- Low German: “Mount Antell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Antell”
- Spanish: “Monte Antell”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Antell Point and Hansen Valley.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Horatio Peak and Brick Store.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Antell”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.