Matador Mountain
| Matador Mountain | ||
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| height | 1950 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 176 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Matador Mountain is a distinctive, 1,950 meters high, and ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises on the south side of the mouth of the Gallup Glacier in the Shackleton Glacier .
The name of the mountain goes back to Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), leader of the expedition of Texas Tech University to explore the Shackleton Glacier (1962-1963). He named it so because all three expedition members were called matadors as employees of the university .
Web links
- Matador Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matador Mountain on geographic.org (English)