- Mount Christi
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Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Mount Christi is a peak rising to 1280 m in the northern Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Saparevo Glacier to the north and Kongur Glacier to the west-northwest.
The name Cape Christi was given for the north cape of Smith Island by a British expedition under Foster, 1828–31, but that feature had already been named Cape Smith. Since the latter name is approved for the cape, the UK-APC recommended in 1953 that for the sake of historical continuity the name Christi be approved for the mountain now described.
Location
The peak is located at 62°54′33.4″S 62°24′01″W / 62.909278°S 62.40028°W which is 4.74 km northeast of Mount Pisgah (Smith Island), 3.36 km south-southwest of Delyan Point and 3.22 km southwest of Matochina Peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
Map
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
Reference
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Christi" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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