Gothic Mountains
| Gothic Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Zanuck ( 2525 m ) | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Queen Maud Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 86 ° 0 ′ S , 150 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Map from 1988, Gothic Mountains in the upper left corner in the northwest corner |
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The Gothic Mountains are a group of mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . With an extension of 32 km in length, they are part of the Queen Maud Mountains west of the Watson Escarpment and are bounded by the Scott , Albanus and Griffith Glaciers .
The geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) visited the mountains in December 1934 on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The descriptive name goes back to a suggestion by Edward Stumps, who headed a geological team from Arizona State University as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program , which examined the mountain between 1980 and 1981. The mountain peaks and summits of the mountains resemble a Gothic cathedral as a whole .
Web links
- Gothic Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gothic Mountains on geographic.org (English)