Ivory Tower (Antarctica)
| Ivory Tower | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Ivory Tower (English for ivory tower ) is an approximately 800 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 2.5 km east of Fadden Peak between the Harold Byrd Mountains and the Bender Mountains .
A team of geologists from Arizona State University visited the mountain as part of a 1977-1978 campaign as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program . The members of this team named the mountain after the almost pure white marble it is made of and which reminded them of ivory .
Web links
- Ivory Tower in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ivory Tower on geographic.org (English)