# Mount Foster

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Not to be confused with [Mount Colonel Foster](/source/Mount_Colonel_Foster).

**Mount Foster** is a peak rising to 2,025 metres (6,644 ft) in the [Imeon Range](/source/Imeon_Range) on [Smith Island](/source/Smith_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands). It is the highest point of the South Shetland Islands archipelago. Mount Foster has triple peaks of which Mount Foster proper is the southernmost, the central one is [Evlogi Peak](/source/Evlogi_Peak) (2,024 m), and the northern one is [Antim Peak](/source/Antim_Peak) (1,995 m). The first ascent was made by Greg Landreth and his team comprising Brice Dowrick, Dan Mannix and Roger Thompson on 30 January 1996.[2][3][4]

The feature is named after Captain [Henry Foster](/source/Henry_Foster_(scientist)), commander of [HMS Chanticleer](/source/HMS_Chanticleer_(1808)) who explored the South Shetlands in 1829.[5]

## Elevation

Traditionally, the elevation of Mount Foster was put at 2,105 metres (6,906 ft).[6][7][8] However, according to the American high accuracy [Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica](/source/Reference_Elevation_Model_of_Antarctica) (REMA) edition 2022, the actual elevation (at 2-meter spatial resolution) is 2,025 m, just 1 m higher than the adjacent Evlogi Peak.[1][9]

## Location

Mount Foster is linked by [Zavet Saddle](/source/Zavet_Saddle) (elevation 1,350 m) to [Slaveykov Peak](/source/Slaveykov_Peak) to the southwest and by a saddle of elevation 1,899 m to [Evlogi Peak](/source/Evlogi_Peak) to the north-northeast. It surmounts [Bistra Glacier](/source/Bistra_Glacier) to the west, [Chuprene Glacier](/source/Chuprene_Glacier) to the north-northwest, [Rupite Glacier](/source/Rupite_Glacier) to the east, [Landreth Glacier](/source/Landreth_Glacier) to the southeast and [Dragoman Glacier](/source/Dragoman_Glacier) to the south-southeast. The peak is located 5.45 km northeast of [Riggs Peak](/source/Riggs_Peak), 2.78 km south-southeast of [Garmen Point](/source/Garmen_Point), 7.64 km southwest of [Mount Pisgah](/source/Mount_Pisgah_(Smith_Island)) and 3.86 km north-northwest of [Ivan Asen Point](/source/Ivan_Asen_Point) (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

## Maps

- [Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.](http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540915.html) from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg) Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
- [South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.](http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=13677) Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009
- [Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).](http://www.add.scar.org) Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

## See also

- [List of ultras of Antarctica](/source/List_of_ultras_of_Antarctica)
- [Imeon Range](/source/Imeon_Range)
- [Smith Island](/source/Smith_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands))

## References

1. [Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer](http://apcbg.org/gazet.bg/)

1. G. Landreth. [News From Antarctica, Mount Foster’s First Ascent.](https://web.archive.org/web/20010116153200/http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/focus/southpole/smith.htm) *High Magazine*, UK, 1997.

1. D. Mannix. [Mount Foster: H.W. Tilman would have approved.](https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12199709200/Mount-Foster-HW-Tilman-Would-Have-Approved) American Alpine Club Publications, 1997

1. D. Mannix. [Northanger – Adventure Quest.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORj8c6zqS3k) *Youtube*, 1997

1. [SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:](http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=108887) Mount Foster

1. ["Antarctica Ultra-Prominences"](http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/antarctica.html) Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2011-12-24

1. ["Mount Foster, Antarctica" on Peakbagger](http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=11989)

1. J. Stewart. [*Antarctica: An Encyclopedia*.](https://epdf.tips/antarctica-an-encyclopedia-2-volume-set-second-edition.html) Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland, 2011. 1771 pp.

1. I.M. Howat, C. Porter, B.E. Smith, M.-J. Noh and P. Morin. Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA). Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2022 ([Antarctic REMA Exlorer](https://rema.apps.pgc.umn.edu/))

## External links

- [Mount Foster.](https://copernix.io/#?where=-62.548610999999994,-62.996667,15&?query=&?map_type=hybrid) Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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