Mount Balch

Location of Kiev Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Balch (65°16′S 63°59′W / 65.267°S 63.983°W / -65.267; -63.983) is an east-west trending mountain with numerous sharp peaks, the highest 1,105 m, between Mount Peary and Mount Mill on Kiev Peninsula, west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot and named by him for Edwin Swift Balch, American author and authority on Antarctic exploration.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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