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Cerro Agassiz
Cerro Agassiz or formerly Cerro Bertrand is a mountain in the Andes, located on the border between Argentina and Chile, in the Patagonia region. It stands at an elevation of 3,177 meters. On the Argentine side, the mountain is part of Los Glaciares National Park in Santa Cruz Province. On the Chilean side, it is part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. In 1898, experts identified the mountain as Agassiz. In some maps, the current Cerro Tomek (2940 meters in Lliboutry's map), or Roma (3270 meters in Lliboutry's map) or Agassiz Sur as Agassiz. Etymology The mountain was named in honor of Swiss glaciologist Louis Agassiz. History After the signing of the 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the border in the area was defined in 1899 by demarcation experts, Francisco Pascasio Moreno from Argentina and Diego Barros Arana from Chile. The Huemul was declared a boundary marker. The experts had no disagreements between Mount F ...
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Southern Patagonian Ice Field
The Southern Patagonian Ice Field (), located at the Southern Patagonic Andes between Chile and Argentina, is the world's second largest contiguous extrapolar ice field. It is the bigger of two remnant parts of the Patagonian Ice Sheet, which covered all of southern Chile during the last glacial period, locally called the Llanquihue glaciation. Geography The Southern Patagonian Ice Field extends from parallels 48° 15′ S to 51° 30′ S for approximately , and has an approximate area of , of which belong to Chile and belong to Argentina. The ice mass feeds dozens of glaciers in the area, among which are the Upsala (), Viedma () and Perito Moreno () in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, and the Pío XI Glacier or Bruggen Glacier (, the largest in area and longest in the southern hemisphere outside of Antarctica), O'Higgins (), Grey () and Tyndall () in Chile. The glaciers going to the west flow into the fjords of the Patagonian chan ...
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Louis Lliboutry
Louis Lliboutry (born 19 February 1922 in Madrid; died on 21 October 2007 in Grenoble) was a French glaciologist, geophysicist, and mountaineer. While in Chile in the early 1950s, he analysed and explained the formation of snow penitents in the Andes, which marked his first contribution to glaciology. He founded in Grenoble in 1958 the Laboratory of Alpine Glaciology and headed it for 25 years; he also set up at that period a pioneering syllabus in geophysics. His contributions to mechanics of viscous media (such as ice and the Earth's mantle) and to geodynamics are internationally acknowledged. Biography Early years Louis Antonin François Lliboutry was born in Madrid on 19 February 1922, the son of French parents originating from the Perpignan region. Repatriated in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, he soon revealed his interest for research and exploration, instilled by Jules Verne's novels, while Jean-Henri Fabre's ''Souvenirs entomologiques'' led him to observe and c ...
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International Mountains Of South America
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Landforms Of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
A landform is a land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. They may be natural or may be anthropogenic (caused or influenced by human activity). Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great oceanic basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, structure stratification, rock exposure, and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, cliffs, hills, mounds, peninsulas, ridges, rivers, valleys, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inla ...
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Mountains Of Magallanes Region
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Cerro Cervantes
The Cerro Cervantes is a mountain in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field with an elevation of 2,380 meters above sea level or 680 meters above the surrounding terrain. Its foothills are about 5.6 kilometers wide. It is located in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and is part of Los Glaciares National Park. Before the 1998 agreement between Argentina and Chile, this mountain was considered a border landmark by Chile. The terrain around Cerro Cervantes is mountainous to the east, but to the west, it is also mountainous. The highest area in the region has an elevation of 2,773 meters and is located 10.7 km south of Cerro Cervantes. Fewer than 2 people per square kilometer live around Cerro Cervantes. There are no settlements nearby. Cerro Cervantes is almost entirely covered by ice. The climate is arctic. The average temperature is -9 °C. The warmest month is December, at -5 °C, and the coldest month is July, at -14 °C. In 1898, the mountain was understood by the surveyors of Arg ...
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Cerro Mayo (Patagonia)
Cerro Mayo or de Mayo is a mountain in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It is part of Los Glaciares National Park. Nearby is the Mayo Glacier, which is accessible from the Mayo Bay of Lake Argentino and the Cerro Negro. Chilean cartography considered this mountain to be the true Cerro Stokes, the mountain first sighted by the Fitz Roy expedition and by the surveyors of both countries in the early 20th century (who considered Cerro Cervantes to be Stokes), and it was regarded as a border landmark until the 1998 agreement. Its geographical location has varied on maps over time. History After the signing of the 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the boundary in the area was defined in 1898 by the boundary surveyors, Francisco Pascasio Moreno from Argentina and Diego Barros Arana from Chile. Huemul was declared a border landmark. The surveyors had no differences in the area between Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Stokes, unlike other ter ...
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Cerro Heim
Cerro Heim is a mountain in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It is located in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and is part of Los Glaciares National Park. Prior to the 1998 agreement between Argentina and Chile, this hill was considered a border landmark by Chile and was established as a landmark by the surveyors of both countries in the 1898 protocol. It stands at an altitude of . History After the signing of the 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the boundary in the area was defined in 1898 by the boundary surveyors, Francisco Pascasio Moreno from Argentina and Diego Barros Arana from Chile. Huemul was declared a border landmark. The surveyors had no differences in the area between Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Stokes, unlike other territories that were subject to arbitration in the 1902 arbitral award. The boundary was defined by the following mountain landmarks and their natural continuity: Mount Fitz Roy, Torre, Huemul, Campana, Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe ...
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Cerro Campana (Patagonia)
Cerro Campana is a glaciated mountain in the Andes mountain range in Patagonia, located on the eastern edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, west of Lake Viedma, and south of the glacier of the same name within the disputed area between Chile and Argentina. For Argentina, the mountain has been part of Los Glaciares National Park since 1937, in the Lago Argentino Department of Santa Cruz Province, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. For Chile, its western side has been part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park since 1969, in the Natales commune of Última Esperanza Province in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Its height is 2,570 m (8,430 ft) above sea level, and it is located near Cerro Mascarello and Cerro Moyano. History After the signing of the 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the boundary in the area was defined in 1898 by the boundary surveyors, Francisco Pascasio Moreno from Argentina and Diego Barros Arana ...
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Cerro Huemul
The Cerro Huemul is a glaciated mountain in the Andes located on the eastern edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, west of Lake Viedma and north of the Viedma Glacier within the Southern Patagonian Ice Field dispute#Agreement, disputed area between Chile and Argentina. For Argentina, the hill has been part of Los Glaciares National Park in the Lago Argentino Department, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz Province, since 1937, and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981. For Chile, its western side has been part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park since 1969, in the Natales commune, Última Esperanza Province, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Its elevation is . It can be accessed via a circuit from the Argentine town of El Chaltén, with the Huemul Pass and Del Viento Pass located nearby. History After the signing of the Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina, 1881 Treaty between Argentina and Chile, the boundary in the area was def ...
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Cerro Torre
Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. It is located on the border dividing Argentina and Chile, west of Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén). At , the peak is the highest of a four mountain chain: the other peaks are Torre Egger (), Punta Herron, and Cerro Standhardt. The top of the mountain often has a mushroom of rime ice, formed by the constant strong winds, increasing the difficulty of reaching the actual summit. First ascent Cesare Maestri claimed in 1959 that he and Toni Egger had reached the summit and that Egger had been swept to his death by an avalanche while they were descending. Maestri declared that Egger had the camera with the pictures of the summit, but this camera was never found. Inconsistencies in Maestri's account, and the lack of bolts, pitons or fixed ropes on the route, have led most mountaineers to doubt Maestri's claim. In 2005, Ermanno Salvaterra, Rolando Garibotti and Alessandro Beltrami, after ...
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Mount Fitz Roy
Monte Fitz Roy (also known as Cerro Chaltén, Cerro Fitz Roy, or simply Mount Fitz Roy) is a mountain in Patagonia, on the border between Argentina and Chile.MONTE FITZ ROY
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