Mount Maria
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Mount Maria is a mountain
of the Hornby Mountains, adjacent to Port Howard
, on West Falkland
island (Falkland Islands
). It reaches a height of approximately 658 metres (2,160 feet).
As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over 2,000 feet have
Mountain
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of the Hornby Mountains, adjacent to Port Howard
Port Howard
Port Howard is the largest settlement on West Falkland . it is in the east of the island, on an inlet of Falkland Sound...
, on West Falkland
West Falkland
West Falkland is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by Falkland Sound. Its area is and its coastline is long. Including the adjacent small islands the land area is .-Population:The island has fewer than 200...
island (Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...
). It reaches a height of approximately 658 metres (2,160 feet).
As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over 2,000 feet have
pronounced corries with small glacial lakeGlacial lakeA glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create...
s at the their bases, [and] morainicMoraineA moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...
ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and ice domes were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate.