Mount Vesalius
Mount Vesalius (64°4′S 61°59′W) is a mountain (765 m) standing northwest of Macleod Point, Liege Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It surmounts Pleystor Glacier to the northwest.
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Location of Liège Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
The peak was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950, but was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Vesalius (1514–1564), a Flemish anatomist who wrote a pioneer work on the structure of the human body which revolutionized the whole concept of the subject.
External links
- Mount Vesalius on USGS website
- Mount Vesalius on AADC website
- Mount Vesalius on SCAR website
- Mount Vesalius Copernix satellite image
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Mount Vesalius". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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