Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mount Quilmes

(Joinville Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 13' 45" S 55° 37' 27" W
rising to 720m in central Joinville Island, was named Monte Quilmes by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition after the battle of Quilmes in 1826, in which the Argentine squadron under Almte G. Brown defeated the Spanish forces.