Mount Bowles

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Location of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Central Bowles Ridge from Wörner Gap, with Mount Bowles on the left and Omurtag Pass in the middle.

Mount Bowles is an ice-covered mountain 822 metres (2,697 ft) high,[1] the summit of Bowles Ridge in the central part of eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated south of Vidin Heights and north of Mount Friesland, Tangra Mountains to which it is linked by Wörner Gap.

The origin of the name is uncertain; it appears (poorly positioned and probably intended for some other peak on the island) on the 1829 chart of the British expedition (1828–31) under Captain Henry Foster in HMS Chanticleer.[2]

Mount Bowles was first climbed by Àlex Simón, Vicente Castro, David Hita and a friend from Juan Carlos I Base on January 5, 2003.[3]

Location

According to a 2003 Australian GPS survey the peak is located at Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., which is 9.77 km northwest of Great Needle Peak, 6.08 km north by west of Mount Friesland, 8.77 km east-northeast of St. Kliment Ohridski base and 9.25 km south by west of Miziya Peak.

Maps

References

  1. Expedition Omega Livingston 2003. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2003.
  2. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. American Alpine Journal, 2003. p.333. ISBN 978-0-930410-93-3

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Bowles" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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