Mount Pinafore

Mount Pinafore (

69°46′S 70°52′W / 69.767°S 70.867°W / -69.767; -70.867Coordinates: 69°46′S 70°52′W / 69.767°S 70.867°W / -69.767; -70.867) is a prominent peak rising to about 1,100 m lying between Bartok Glacier and Sullivan Glacier situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is located 6.27 km southeast of Lyubimets Nunatak, 9.26 km south-southeast of Kozhuh Peak, and surmounts Bartók Glacier to the northwest. The mountain is named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1977, in association with nearby Gilbert Glacier and Sullivan Glacier after the 1878 operetta H.M.S. Pinafore.

See also[]

• Mount Ariel
• Mount Hahn
• Mount McArthur

Further reading[]

• Geological Society of London, Volcano-ice Interaction on Earth and Mars, P 154
• M. J. Hambrey, W. B. Harland, Earth's Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record, P 201
• Mary G. Chapman, Laszlo P. Keszthelyi, Preservation of Random Megascale Events on Mars and Earth: Influence on Geologic History, PP 57, 64
• Bösken, Janina. (2016), Current state of art in research about tuyas in Antarctica, British Columbia and Iceland - A literature review about the differences and similarities of tuyas, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33225.13926
• John L. Smellie, Ian P. Skilling, Products of subglacial volcanic eruptions under different ice thicknesses: two examples from Antarctica, Sedimentary Geology Volume 91, Issues 1–4, June 1994, Pages 115–129, https://doi.org/10.1016/0037-0738(94)90125-2

External links[]

• Mount Pinafore on USGS website
• Mount Pinafore on SCAR website
• Mount Pinafore on mindat.org website
• Mount Pinafore on peakery.com

References[]

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