Mount Balch

Location of Kyiv Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

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

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Balch". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.