Mount Canicula

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Mount Canicula (63°43′S 58°30′W / 63.717°S 58.500°W / -63.717; -58.500Coordinates: 63°43′S 58°30′W / 63.717°S 58.500°W / -63.717; -58.500) is a mountain formed of two rock peaks, 890 and 825 metres (2,920 and 2,710 ft) high. It stands 3 nautical miles (6 km) east of Sirius Knoll on the divide separating Russell East Glacier and Russell West Glacier in central Trinity Peninsula, and is linked to Louis-Philippe Plateau to the north by Verdikal Gap,^[1] and to Trakiya Heights to southwest by Srem Gap.^[2] It was charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and named by them because of the association with Sirius Knoll: Canicula is a synonym of Sirius, the dog star.^[3]

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

↑ Srem Gap. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
↑ Verdikal Gap. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
↑ "Canicula, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-10-23.

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