Usually, unless and until some peculiar writing or debate shifts the focus, the talk about United Kingdom more often than not only stays restricted to the state of politics, culture and economy.
We hear about United Kingdom’s political luminaries, the thriving cosmopolis of London, there’s an awful lot of talk about a vibrant sporting culture across the UK and of course, her Majesty the Queen of England.
But do you get to hear commonly about United Kingdom’s geography unless someone publishes a dominant discourse on climate change or something in that regard? How about there being any news commonly written or produced around the British Antarctic Territory? One doesn’t quite hear about that part of the UK, isn’t it?
Well, it turns out, there is something in the heart of the British Antarctic Territory that is making news and in fact, shaping popular imagination as we speak.
After scientists in the United Kingdom recently discovered that the measurements noted by former climbers and mountaineers of the 1930s pertaining to Mt. Hope were all wrong- there’s news surfacing about the actual dimension of Mt. Hope- located in that part of the Antarctic that is claimed by the UK.
Mt. Hope was recently re-measured and found to be towering slightly higher than what was hitherto believed to be the highest mountain in the whole of the United Kingdom: Mt. Jackson.
It has been discovered that Mt. Hope is approximately 50 meters higher than Mt. Jackson and when measured in entirety, stretched up to 3,239 meters. Since it’s Antarctica, there are no roads. So people generally tend to go by planes. So when one flies, one’s ought to know, how high the mountains are. Interestingly, when compared to the tallest mountain peak in the world, United Kingdom’s Mt. Hope is nearly 5600 meters shy of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. Upon the new reassessment, there’s been a lot of talk about the quadrant of Antarctica claimed by the UK, which includes a long peninsula that stretches north toward South America.