Fram Mesa
| Fram Mesa | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Fram Mesa is a high, ice-covered mesa of around 16 km in length and between 2 and 5 km width of the north-eastern end of Nilsen plateau in Queen Maud Mountains forms.
Presumably he was spotted during the South Pole expedition (1910–1911) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen . A rough mapping followed as part of the first (1928–1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . By surveying work by the United States Geological Survey and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy , the detailed mapping was carried out between 1960 and 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1967 after Amundsen's expedition ship Fram .
Web links
- Fram Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fram Mesa on geographic.org (English)