Fuchs Dome

Fuchs Dome
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height	1525 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 33 '54 " S , 27 ° 35' 23" W Coordinates: 80 ° 33 '54 " S , 27 ° 35' 23" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Fuchs Dome is an icy and domed mountain in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It rises 1525 m (according to another source 1810 m ) between the Stratton Glacier and the Gordon Glacier in the center of the Shackleton Range .

It was mapped in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of the British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs (1908-1999), after whom the mountain is named.

Web links

Fuchs Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
Fuchs Dome on geographic.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Axel Brommer: Structural evolution and petrogenesis of the northern crystalline belt of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica: Proterozoic and Ross-orogenic crustal dynamics along the margin of the East Antarctic Craton . Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1997 (= Ber. Polarforsch. Volume 290, 1998), p. 3 (English). hdl : 10013 / epic.10293.d001 .

[1] Axel Brommer: Structural evolution and petrogenesis of the northern crystalline belt of the Shackleton Range, Antarctica: Proterozoic and Ross-orogenic crustal dynamics along the margin of the East Antarctic Craton . Dissertation, Frankfurt am Main 1997 (= Ber. Polarforsch. Volume 290, 1998), p. 3 (English). hdl : 10013 / epic.10293.d001 .