Mount Allan
| Mount Allan | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Traverse Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 59 '27 " S , 67 ° 45' 54" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Allan is a solitary mountain at a height of 1600 m and the largest mountain range in the Traverse Mountains on the Rymill coast of the Antarctic Palmerland .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Thomas John Allan (1940-1966), radio operator of the British Antarctic Survey between 1965 and 1966 on Stonington Island , who was on a sled excursion with vehicle mechanic John Fraser Noel (1942-1966) died in May 1966 at Tragic Corner on the Fallières coast .
Web links
- Mount Allan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Allan on geographic.org (English)