Breyer Mesa
| Breyer Mesa | ||
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 Breyer Mesa in the northwest area of the topographic map sheet |
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| height | 3000 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Breyer Mesa is a 5 km long, the icy and about 3000 m high mesa in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises on the western flank of the Amundsen Glacier between the confluences of the Christy and Tate Glaciers .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered the mountain during his South Pole flight in November 1929. He named it after his friend, the lawyer Robert S. Breyer (1887–1964) from Los Angeles , a sponsor of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) . In 1951, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names changed Byrd's name as Mount Breyer to its present-day form in order to better reflect the nature of the mountain.
Web links
- Breyer Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Breyer Mesa on geographic.org (English)