Feature Name (see definition): Nicholas, Mount

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 10682

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 69° 22' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 069° 50' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -69.3666667

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -69.8333333

Elevation (see definition): 1465

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1955

Description (see definition): Mountain, 1,465 m, standing 5.5 mi SSW of Cape Brown and forming the N limit of Douglas Range on the E side of Alexander Island. First seen and roughly charted from a distance in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Charcot, who named it "Ile Nicolas II" after Nicholas II, then reigning tsar of Russia. The French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) maps showed it as an island, or possible headland, separated by a channel from Alexander Island. The coast in this vicinity was photographed from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), but Charcot's name which was altered to "Cape Nicholas," was applied in error to the seaward bulge of Mount Calais, about 13 mi to the NNW Surveys in 1948 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) identified the feature originally named "Ile Nicolas II" by Charcot as the mountain described.

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