# Mount Nicholas > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mount_Nicholas > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mount_Nicholas.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nicholas > Source revision: 1108711811 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Mountain on Alexander Island, Antarctica}} {{Distinguish|text = [Mount Nichols](/source/Mount_Nichols), Harold Byrd Mountains, Antarctica}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Mount Nicholas''' is a 1,465-m [mountain](/source/mountain), standing 5.5 nautical miles (10 km) south-southwest of [Cape Brown](/source/Cape_Brown), and forming the northern limit of the [Douglas Range](/source/Douglas_Range) on the east side of [Alexander Island](/source/Alexander_Island), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica). First seen and roughly charted from a distance in 1909 by the [French Antarctic Expedition](/source/French_Antarctic_Expedition) under [Charcot](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Charcot), who named it ''Ile Nicolas II'' after [Nicholas II](/source/Nicholas_II_of_Russia), then reigning tsar of Russia. The French Antarctic Expedition maps showed it as an [island](/source/island), or possible [headland](/source/headland), separated by a channel from Alexander Island. The coast in this vicinity was photographed from the air in 1937 by the [British Graham Land Expedition](/source/British_Graham_Land_Expedition) (BGLE), but Charcot's name was altered by [Rymill](/source/John_Riddoch_Rymill) to "Cape Nicholas" and was applied in error to the seaward bulge of [Mount Calais](/source/Mount_Calais), about 13 nautical miles (24 km) to the north-northwest. Surveys in 1948 by the [Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey](/source/Falkland_Islands_Dependencies_Survey) (FIDS) identified the feature originally named "Ile Nicolas II" by Charcot as the mountain described. The geology of the mountain contains both [igneous](/source/Igneous_rock) and [sedimentary](/source/sedimentary_rock) rocks.Jarvis Bardwell Hadley, ''Geology and paleontology of the Antarctic'' (1965), p. 51Clinton Hartley Grattan, ''The Southwest Pacific since 1900: a modern history; Australia, New Zealand, the islands, Antarctica'' (1963) Mount Nicholas is within the area claimed by the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) as the [British Antarctic Territory](/source/British_Antarctic_Territory), while for [Chile](/source/Chile) and [Argentina](/source/Argentina) it is part of the [Antártica Chilena Province](/source/Ant%C3%A1rtica_Chilena_Province) and the [Tierra del Fuego Province](/source/Tierra_del_Fuego_Province_(Argentina)) respectively. ==See also== * [Mount Calais](/source/Mount_Calais) * [Mount Cupola](/source/Mount_Cupola) * [Mount Spivey](/source/Mount_Spivey) == Further reading == * Defense Mapping Agency 1992, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=sgSnbMOD_VsC&pg=PA377 Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica]'', P 377 * Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers, ''[https://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/2600/C/pdf/mapI-2600-C_v4.pdf Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Palmer Land Area, Antarctica: 1947–2009]'' == References == {{reflist}} {{usgs-gazetteer}} {{coord|69|22|S|69|50|W|display=title}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicholas}} Category:Mountains of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mount Nicholas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nicholas) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nicholas?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.