Evans Butte
| Evans Butte | ||
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| height | 2570 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Evans Butte is a 2570 m high, striking and snow-covered witness mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises at the head of the Albanus Glacier and marks the southeastern border of the Tapley Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Lieutenant Eldon L. Evans of the United States Navy , medical officer at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962.
Web links
- Evans Butte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Butte on geographic.org (English)