Mount Faraway
Mount Faraway is a prominent, snow-covered mountain, 1,175 metres (3,850 ft) high, marking the southern extremity of the Theron Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956, and so named because during days of sledging toward this mountain they never seemed to be any nearer to it.[1]
Important Bird Area
[edit]Mount Faraway is part of the 665 ha Coalseam Cliffs and Mount Faraway Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports a colony of about 10,000 breeding pairs of Antarctic petrels. The birds nest in a scree-filled hollow between two 60 m high dolerite cliffs, a location also known as Stewart Buttress. Other birds recorded as breeding in the vicinity include snow petrels and south polar skuas.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Faraway, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ^ "Coalseam Cliffs / Mount Faraway". BirdLife Data Zone. BirdLife International. 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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79°12′S 28°49′W / 79.200°S 28.817°W
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