Mount Balch
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Mount Balch is an east-west trending mountain
with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary
and Mount Mill
on Kiev Peninsula
, west coast of Graham Land
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for Edwin Swift Balch, American author and authority on Antarctic exploration.
Mountain
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with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary
Mount Peary
Mount Peary is a conspicuous massif, 1,900 m, with a flat, snow-covered summit several miles in extent, surmounted by a marginal peak on the west, standing 7 nautical miles east-northeast of Cape Tuxen and dominating the area between Wiggins and Bussey Glaciers on Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land...
and Mount Mill
Mount Mill
Mount Mill is a mountain, 735 m, standing 2 nautical miles west of Mount Balch on the northeast shore of Waddington Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99...
on Kiev Peninsula
Kiev Peninsula
Kiev Peninsula is the predominantly ice-covered, oval shaped peninsula projecting 35 km in northwest direction from the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Flandres Bay to the northeast and Beascochea Bay to the southwest. Separated from Wilhelm Archipelago to the northwest...
, west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....
, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for Edwin Swift Balch, American author and authority on Antarctic exploration.