Elevation 705 m Mountain range Wickham Heights | Prominence 705 m Parent range Wickham Heights | |
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Location East Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean Similar Mount Kent, Mount Paget, Mont Sokbaro, Crown Mountain, Qurayn Abu al Bawl | ||
Mount Usborne Spanish: Cerro Alberdi is a mountain on East Falkland. At 2,313 feet (705 m) above sea level, it is the highest point in the Falkland Islands.
Map of Mt Usborne, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
The mountain is referenced by Charles Darwin in Chapter 9 of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle and is named after Alexander Burns Usborne, Master's Assistant on HMS Beagle, the ship that took Darwin on his famous voyage.
The remains of glacial cirques can also be seen on Mount Usborne. It is only a few metres taller than Mount Adam on West Falkland.
As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over 2,000 feet (610 m) have:
"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"References
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