Mount Bowles

Location of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Central Bowles Ridge from Wörner Gap, with Mount Bowles on the left and Omurtag Pass in the middle.

Mount Bowles is an ice-covered mountain 822 metres (2,697 ft) high,^[1] the summit of Bowles Ridge in the central part of eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated south of Vidin Heights and north of Mount Friesland, Tangra Mountains to which it is linked by Wörner Gap.

The origin of the name is uncertain; it appears (poorly positioned and probably intended for some other peak on the island) on the 1829 chart of the British expedition (1828–31) under Captain Henry Foster in HMS Chanticleer.^[2]

Mount Bowles was first climbed by Àlex Simón, Vicente Castro, David Hita and a friend from Juan Carlos I Base on January 5, 2003.^[3]

Location

According to a 2003 Australian GPS survey the peak is located at 62°37′0.15″S 60°12′08.5″W / 62.6167083°S 60.202361°WCoordinates: 62°37′0.15″S 60°12′08.5″W / 62.6167083°S 60.202361°W, which is 9.77 km northwest of Great Needle Peak, 6.08 km north by west of Mount Friesland, 8.77 km east-northeast of St. Kliment Ohridski base and 9.25 km south by west of Miziya Peak.

Maps

• S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath. Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
• L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

1. Expedition Omega Livingston 2003. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2003.
2. "Mount Bowles". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
3. American Alpine Journal, 2003. p.333. ISBN 978-0-930410-93-3

• D. Gildea. Mountaineering in Antarctica: complete guide: Travel guide. Primento and Editions Nevicata, 2015. ISBN 978-2-51103-136-0

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Bowles" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).