Mountain in Palmer Land, Antarctica
Mount Martine is a massive mountain, about 800 metres (2,600 ft) high, with a prominent rocky north face and ice-covered south slopes, overlooking the north shore of Charcot Island , south of Cheesman Island , in the east Bellinghausen Sea of Antarctica .
History
It was discovered and roughly mapped on 11 January 1910, by the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot , and named by him in association with Mount Monique and the Marion Nunataks after his daughter, Martine. It was photographed from the air on 9 February 1947 in the course of the US Navy's Operation Highjump and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.[1] The mountain forms part of the Marion Nunataks Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA No.170) designated as such for its biological values.[2]
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Martine" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey .
69°45′S 75°5′W / 69.750°S 75.083°W / -69.750; -75.083