Mount Globus
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Mount Globus is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

, 1,270 m, between Fanning Ridge
Fanning Ridge
Fanning Ridge is a prominent rock ridge, 5 nautical miles long, paralleling the south coast of South Georgia between Aspasia Point and the west side of Newark Bay...

 and Mount Corneliussen
Mount Corneliussen
Mount Corneliussen is a mountain, 1,540 m, standing 1 nautical mile north of Mount Globus at the west end of the Allardyce Range of South Georgia...

 at the west end of the Allardyce Range
Allardyce Range
The Allardyce Range is a mountain range rising south of Cumberland Bay and dominating the central part of South Georgia, a UK overseas territory. Mount Paget is the highest peak of the range and also the highest point in the UK territory...

 of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Hvalfangerselskapet "Globus" A/S, a Norwegian whaling company founded in 1924, which first used the plan patented by Petter Sorlle for processing whales in a factory ship
Factory ship
A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish...

fitted with a slipway.
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