Mount Bowles

Mount Bowles
Mount Bowles
	Central Bowles Ridge from Wörner Gap, with Mount Bowles on the left and Omurtag Pass in the middle.
Highest point
Peak	822 metres (2,697 ft)
Elevation	834 m (2,736 ft)
Coordinates	62°37′0.15″S 60°12′08.5″W
Geography
	Mount Bowles
Continent	Antarctica
Island	Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands
Parent range	Bowles Ridge
Climbing
First ascent	Àlex Simón, Vicente Castro, David Hita, and friend (2003)

Mount Bowles is an ice-covered mountain 822 metres (2,697 ft) high, the summit of Bowles Ridge in the central part of eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated south of Vidin Heights and north of Mount Friesland, Tangra Mountains to which it is linked by Wörner Gap.

The origin of the name is uncertain; it appears (poorly positioned and probably intended for some other peak on the island) on the 1829 chart of the British expedition (1828–31) under Captain Henry Foster in HMS Chanticleer.

Mount Bowles was first climbed by Àlex Simón, Vicente Castro, David Hita and a friend from Juan Carlos I base on January 5, 2003.

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