Lyons Cone

Lyons Cone
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height	1850 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Lyons Cone is a 1,850 m high and conical mountain of the Asgard Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3.8 km north-northeast of the Matterhorn from a mountain ridge that separates the head ends of the Lacroix , Newall and Suess glaciers .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 after the US geochemist William Berry Lyons, who was, among other things, head of studies on long-term ecology in the Antarctic dry valleys from 1993 to 1997.

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