Cerro Murallón is a glacier

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of the

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, in

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, located on the eastern edge of the

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, southwest of Lake Viedma, at the border between

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and

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. On the Argentine side, the hill has been part of the Los Glaciares National Park since 1937, in the

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in the Santa Cruz Province, which was declared a

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by UNESCO in 1981. On the Chilean side, it has been part of the

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, since 1969, in the commune of Natales in the

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in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region. According to some sources its height is above sea level, and according to others it is above sea level.

Toponymy

Cerro Murallón is named for its immense granite wall it presents. Cerro Murallón was photographed for the first time by the Salesian missionary Alberto María de Agostini in 1949, and its first ascent was made by Eduardo García, Cedomir Marangunic, Eric Shipton and Jack Ewer on January 24, 1961, on its west face. The first climb to the northeast wall was made in 1984 by the Italians Carlo Alde, Casimiro Ferrari and Paolo Vitali.

References

Murallón Mountains of Magallanes Region Landforms of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Argentina–Chile border Murallón Two-thousanders of the Andes {{SantaCruzAR-geo-stub