Halzen Mesa

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Halzen Mesa
ASTER Satellite Image of Range Island; the large table mountain in the right half of the picture is Halzen Mesa

ASTER satellite image of Range Island ; the large table mountain in the right half of the picture is Halzen Mesa

location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Range Island , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 23 '40 "  S , 161 ° 26' 25"  E Coordinates: 77 ° 23 '40 "  S , 161 ° 26' 25"  E
Halzen Mesa (Antarctica)
Halzen Mesa
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The Halzen Mesa is a 1,345  m high, elongated and 5 km long table mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the easternmost and largest of the three table mountains of the island Range in the middle of the Antarctic dry valleys . The flanks of this table mountain rise steeply 500 to 600 m above the valley floors of the Barwick Valley and McKelvey Valley .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 2005 in the Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen (* 1944) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison , who in 1988 as part of the United States Antarctic Program on Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array and down In 2004 he played a key role in setting up a neutrino detector in the so-called IceCube at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in six campaigns .

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