Feature Name (see definition): Birks, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 1411

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 65° 18' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 062° 10' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.3

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.1666667

Elevation (see definition): 1035

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963

Description (see definition): Conspicuous, pyramid-shaped mountain, 1,035 m, at the N side of the mouth of Crane Glacier, on the E coast of Graham Land. In 1928 Sir Hubert Wilkins gave the name Mount Napier Birks, after Napier Birks of Adelaide, Australia, to two conspicuous, black peaks which he observed and photographed from the air as lying close N of his Crane Channel. This coast was charted by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, but it has not been possible to identify Wilkins' Mount Napier Birks. Since Crane Channel was definitely identified as Crane Glacier, the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) recommended in 1950 that the name, shortened to Mount Birks, be given to this conspicuous mountain lying close N of the mouth of the glacier.

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