Matterhorn (Viktorialand)
| Matterhorn | ||
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 The Matterhorn without height information in the western area of the topographic map sheet |
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Matterhorn is a 1600 m high mountain in the Asgard Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the north side of the Taylor Valley between the Lacroix Glacier and the Matterhorn Glacier .
The British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), who participated in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913), named the mountain after the much more famous Matterhorn in Switzerland because of its similarity . In the Antarctic there is another mountain of the same name with the Matterhorn in Neuschwabenland .
Web links
- Matterhorn in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Matterhorn on geographic.org (English)