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Mount Usborne (スペイン語:Cerro Alberdi) is a mountain on East Falkland. At above sea level, it is the highest point in the Falkland Islands. The mountain is referenced by Charles Darwin in Chapter 9 of the ''Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle'' and is named after (Alexander Burns Usborne ), Master's Assistant on , the ship that took Darwin on his famous voyage. The remains of glacial cirques can also be seen on Mount Usborne. It is only a few metres taller than Mount Adam on West Falkland. As one of the highest mountains of the Falklands, it experienced some glaciation. The handful of mountains over have: :''"pronounced corries with small glacial lakes at the their bases, morainic ridges deposited below the corries suggest that the glaciers and ice domes were confined to areas of maximum elevation with other parts of the islands experiencing a periglacial climate''" 〔Strange, Ian (1983) ''The Falkland Islands''〕 ==References== * Stonehouse, B (ed.) ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans'' (2002, ISBN 0-471-98665-8) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Usborne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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