Queen Mary's Peak

Queen Mary's Peak is the highest mountain in the South Atlantic Ocean, situated on the Island of Tristan da Cunha, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. It has an elevation of 2,062 metres (6,760 feet) above sea level. The mountain is volcanic. It is named after Mary of Teck, the Queen consort of King George V. For other uses, see Atlantic (disambiguation) The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. ... Tristan da Cunha is a group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and also the name of its main island. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (almost exclusively Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Eruption redirects here. ... Mary of Teck Princess Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) (26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953), later Queen Mary, was the Queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom. ... King George V of the United Kingdom and his consort, Queen Mary A queen consort is the wife and consort of a reigning king. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert) (3 June 1865–20 January 1936) was the last British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, changing the name to the House of Windsor in 1917. ...

Queen Mary's Peak was used by sailors on the route from Europe to the Indian Ocean and beyond as a navigational aid. In the 17th Century the East India Company instructed captains to sail via Tristan. In 2004, Ellen McArthur sighted the Peak on her record-breaking circumnavigation of the world. East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ellen Patricia MacArthur, MBE (born July 8, 1976) is a British sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire who was named 1998 British Telecom/Royal Yachting Association Yachtsman of The Year in the UK and Sailings Young Hope in France. ...