Mount Vesalius
{{Short description|Mountain on Liege Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica}}
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Mount Vesalius ({{coord|64|4|S|61|59|W|display=inline,title}}) is a mountain (765 m) standing northwest of Macleod Point, Liege Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It surmounts Pleystor Glacier to the northwest.
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
- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:0::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:15981 Mount Vesalius] on USGS website
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=111763 Mount Vesalius] on AADC website
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/search_names_action.cfm?search_text=15420&feature_type_code=0&country_id=0&relic_options=include_relics&north=-45.0&south=-90.0&west=-180.0&east=180.0&search_near=&radius=0.5&gazetteers=SCAR Mount Vesalius] on SCAR website
- [https://copernix.io/#?where=-61.9904100950928,-64.06720160760644,14&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Mount Vesalius] Copernix satellite image
References
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Category:Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago
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