Mount Alf
| Mount Alf | ||
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| height | 3200 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Alf is a 3200 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises between Mount Sharp and Mount Dalrymple in the northern part of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
It was mapped by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the US meteorologist Edward Alfred Alf (1930-2013) who was part of the crew at Byrd Station in the winter of 1957.
Web links
- Mount Alf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Alf on geographic.org (English)