Mount Allsup
| Mount Allsup | ||
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| height | 2580 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Allsup is a 2580 m high mountain in the far west of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the southern end of the Queen Elizabeth Range it marks the southwestern end of the Canopy Cliffs .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after Clifford C. Allsup, an aircraft engineer in the United States Navy , who died on October 18, 1956 at McMurdo Sound when a Lockheed P2V / P-2 Neptune crashed during the second Operation Deep Freeze (1956 –1957) was injured.
Web links
- Mount Allsup in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Allsup on geographic.org (English)