Lexington Table
| Lexington Table | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 7 ′ 8 ″ S , 49 ° 52 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Lexington Table is an approximately 1,600 m high, flattened and snow-capped table mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . It extends over an area of approximately 25 x 15 km north of the Kent Gap and the Saratoga Table in the southern Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains .
He was discovered and photographed during the transcontinental flight carried out by the United States Navy on January 13, 1956 as part of the first Operation Deep Freeze from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1957 after the aircraft carrier USS Lexington .
Web links
- Lexington table in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lexington Table on geographic.org (English)