Mount Scalpello

Mount Scalpello (Italian: Monte Scalpello) is a 583 metres (1,913 ft) hill in central eastern Sicily, Italy.[1] The hill is mostly known for Triassic[1] and Neolithic remains being found in 1997[2] and there it is mostly linked with Canadian campaign of WW2 in Italy[3] where a mule path south of the hill was the location of multiple CYR advances[4] during night operations.[5][6] After which two companies held the hill against constant German mortar and artillery.[7][3]

Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello is located in Sicily
Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello is located in Italy
Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello is located in Europe
Mount Scalpello
Mount Scalpello
Highest point
Elevation583 m (1,913 ft)
Prominence787 ft (240 m)
Coordinates37°32′53″N 14°39′8″E
Naming
Language of nameItalian
Geography
CountryItaly
RegionSicily

References

  1. Crasquin, Sylvie; Sciuto, Francesco; Reitano, Agatino (2018-04-01). "Late Carnian (Tuvalian, Tropites dilleri zone) ostracods (Crustacea) from the Mufara Formation (Monte Scalpello, Central-Eastern Sicily, Italy)". Annales de Paléontologie. 104 (2): 129–142. Bibcode:2018AnPal.104..129C. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2018.03.001. ISSN 0753-3969. S2CID 133846307.
  2. "Monte Scalpello - Sqallija fuq in-Net". Sicilia in Rete (in Maltese). Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  3. Stieva, Katelyn (2016). MAKING IT UP AS YOU GO: RACIAL POLICY IN THE CANADIAN MILITARY DURING THE TWO WORLD WARS (Thesis). University of New Brunswick. p. 47.
  4. Tooley, Robert William (1990). Invicta : the Carleton and York regiment in the Second World War. National Library of Canada. ISBN 0-315-51850-2. OCLC 23651029.
  5. Staff, Canada Department of National Defence General (1966). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G. W. L. Nicholson. R. Duhamel, Queen's Printer.
  6. Staff, Canada Department of National Defence General; Stacey, Charles Perry (1956). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War ...: The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945, by G.W.L. Nicholson. Cloutier.
  7. Scot Daniell, David; Atkinson, Cristopher Thomas (1950). The Royal Hampshire Regiment. Regiment, 1950. p. 133.
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