Mount Adam (Falkland Islands)
| Mount Adam | |
|---|---|
  Mount Adam | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 700 m (2,300 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 51°35′06″S60°02′04″W/ 51.5851°S 60.0345°W[1] |
| Geography | |
| Location | West Falkland,Falkland Islands,southAtlantic Ocean |
| Parent range | Hill Cove Mountains |
Mount Adam(Spanish:"Monte Independencia/Monte Beaufort" ) is a mountain onWest Falkland,part of theHill Cove Mountainsrange. It is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is the second highest in the islands.[2]It has the remains of glacialcirqueson it, and is only 5 metres (16 ft) lower thanMount Usborne,the highest peak of theFalkland IslandsonEast Falkland.Its summit is at 700 metres (2,300 ft).[3]It is south west ofMount Edgeworth.The closest settlements areHill Coveto the North, andChartresto the South.
As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced someglaciation.The handful of mountains over 610 metres (2,000 ft) have:
- "pronouncedcorrieswith smallglacial lakesat their bases,morainicridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers andice domeswere confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate"[4]
References
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- ^"Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles".Archived fromthe originalon 31 July 2003.Retrieved14 July2022.
- ^"Falkland Islands Information Web - Geography".Archived fromthe originalon 16 July 2012.Retrieved24 July2010.
- ^Strange, Ian (1983)The Falkland Islands
- Stonehouse, B (ed.)Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans(2002,ISBN0-471-98665-8)