Mount Alberts
| Mount Alberts | ||
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| height | 2320 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Alberts is a pointed, almost completely snow-covered and 2320 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located 18 km east of Mount Phillips on the edge of the Malta Plateau in the Victory Mountains and towers over the western edge of the Ross Sea south of the mouth of the Line Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named the mountain after Fred G. Alberts (1923-2010), American toponomist and secretary of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names from 1949 to 1980.
Web links
- Mount Albert in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Alberts on geographic.org (English)