Lassus Mountains
| Lassus Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Wilbye ( 2050 m ) | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 34 ′ S , 71 ° 31 ′ W | |
The Lassus Mountains are a mountain range in the northwest of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . They extend over a length of 24 km and a width of 5 km from the Palestrina Glacier to the south. The highest point at around 2050 m is Mount Wilbye .
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1937 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . Aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) were used by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey to map them in 1960. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1961 after the Belgian composer Orlandus Lassus ( 1532-1594).
Web links
- Lassus Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lassus Mountains on geographic.org (English)