Mount Maria

Mount Maria is a mountain of the Hornby Mountains, adjacent to Port Howard, on West Falkland island (Falkland Islands). It reaches a height of approximately 2,160 feet (660 m).

This article is about a mountain in Falkland Islands. For another mountain with similar name in Sabah, see Mount Maria, Malaysia. For the locality in the Gladstone Region, Australia, see Mount Maria, Queensland.
Mount Maria
Highest point
Elevation2,160 ft (660 m)
Coordinates51.600°S 59.594°W / -51.600; -59.594 
Geography
LocationWest Falkland, Falkland Islands, south Atlantic Ocean
Parent rangeHornby Mountains

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, [and] 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.[1]

References
  1. Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands


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