Mount Usborne

{{Short description|Mountain on East Falkland, Falkland Islands}}

{{confusion|Mount Osborne}}

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| name = Mount Usborne

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| elevation_m = 705

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| parent_peak = none – Highest peak on the Falkland Islands

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| location = East Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean

| range = Wickham Heights

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Mount Usborne ({{langx|es|Cerro Alberdi}}) is a mountain on East Falkland. At {{cvt|705|m|ft}} above sea level, it is the highest point in the Falkland Islands. It is only {{convert|5|m|ft}} taller than Mount Adam, the highest peak on West Falkland.

The mountain is referenced by Charles Darwin in Chapter 9 of Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. It is named after Alexander Burns Usborne,[http://www.usbornefamilytree.com/alexander1805.htm Alexander Burns Usborne] master's assistant on {{HMS|Beagle}}, the ship that took Darwin on his famous voyage.

As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The remains of glacial cirques can be seen on the mountain. The handful of Falklands mountains over {{cvt|600|m|ft}} have

{{quote|... 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.Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands}}