Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mount Timosthenes

(Fallières Coast)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 2' 19" S 66° 5' 11" W
rising to c. 2025 m on N side of Airy Glacier, Fallières Coast, was photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 27 November 1947, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in December 1958; called in error Peregrinus Peak (q.v.); in association with the names of pioneers of navigation grouped in this area, named after Aristotle Timosthenes of Rhodes, who as Chief Pilot to Ptolemy II (King of Egypt, 285-246 BC) wrote sailing directions and devised the wind-rose of eight or twelve winds, later developed into the points of the compass.