Mount Adam (Falkland Islands) Explained

Mount Adam
Elevation M:700
Elevation Ref:[1]
Prominence M:700
Map:Falkland Islands
Label Position:left
Location:West Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean
Range:Hill Cove Mountains
Coordinates:-51.5851°N -60.0345°W

Mount Adam (Spanish: "Monte Independencia/Monte Beaufort") is a mountain on West Falkland, part of the Hill Cove Mountains range. It is the highest mountain on West Falkland and is the second highest in the islands.[2] It has the remains of glacial cirques on it, and is only 5m (16feet) lower than Mount Usborne, the highest peak of the Falkland Islands on East Falkland. Its summit is at 700m (2,300feet).[3] It is south west of Mount Edgeworth. The closest settlements are Hill Cove to the North, and Chartres to the South.

As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over 610m (2,000feet) have:

"pronounced corries with small glacial lakes at 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"[4]

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Notes and References

  1. 8809. Mount Adam.
  2. Web site: Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles . 14 July 2022 . 31 July 2003 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030731063401/http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket%2FXcelerate%2FShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1018965238550 . dead .
  3. Web site: Falkland Islands Information Web - Geography . 2010-07-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120716203559/http://www.falklands.info/background/geography.html . 2012-07-16 .
  4. Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands