Mount Adam, Falkland Islands
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| Mount Adam | |
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| Elevation | 700 m (2,297 ft) |
| Location | West Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean |
| Range | Hill Cove Mountains |
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Mount Adam (Spanish: "Monte Independencia/Monte Beaufort"; 2315 ft. (700 metres)) is a mountain on West Falkland, part of the Hill Cove Mountains range. It is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is one of the highest in the islands [1]. It has the remains of glacial cirques on it, and is of similar height to Mount Usborne on East Falkland.
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 lakes at the their bases, morainic 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" [1]
[edit] References
- ^ Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
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