Mount Fagan

Mount Fagan

Mount Fagan (54°30′S 36°8′W / 54.5°S 36.133°W / -54.5; -36.133) is a mountain (930 m) located 1.4 nautical miles (2.6 km) west-southwest of Coffin Top and 2.75 nautical miles (5 km) west of Moltke Harbor, South Georgia. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1971 for Captain P.F. Fagan, RE, surveyor on the British Combined Services Expedition, 1964–65, and the first person to climb the mountain.

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