Aristotle Mountains is the fan-shaped sequence of ridges spreading east-northeastwards from its summit
Madrid Dome (1647 m) on
Oscar II Coast in
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...
on the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica.
...
. The feature is named after the
ancient Greek
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scientist
Aristotle
Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...
who in his book ''Meteorology'' dated c. 350 BC was the first to conjecture the existence of a landmass in the southern high-latitude region, calling it ''Antarctica''.
[Aristotle Mountains.]
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Extent and location
The feature extends 62 km in a southwest-northeast direction and 44 km in the northwest-southeast direction, and is bounded by
Crane Glacier to the northwest,
Exasperation Inlet to the northeast and
Flask Glacier to the south. It is linked to
Roundel Dome and
Bruce Plateau to the west-southwest by a saddle 1550 m in elevation. The mountains are centred at , and were mapped by the
British in 1964.
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Maps
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
See also
* Pippin Peaks
* Whitewhale Bastion
Notes
References
Aristotle Mountains.
SCAR
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
External linksAristotle Mountains.
Copernix satellite image
Mountains of Graham Land
Oscar II Coast
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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