Mount Arnaudo
Mount Arnaudo | ||
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height | 1500 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 84 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Arnaudo is a hilly and icy mountain at an altitude of 1500 m in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 3 km south of Mount Cyril between the eastern edge of the lower Beardmore Glacier and the Hood Glacier in the northern part of the Commonwealth Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2005 after Raymond Vincent Arnaudo (* 1948), Deputy Director in the Office of Oceans Affairs at the State Department of the United States , who, among other things, oversees US delegations to the Ross Sea and the Georgian Sea as part of the Antarctic Treaty. V. Coast (1989) and Antarctic Peninsula (2000).
Web links
- Mount Arnaudo in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Arnaudo on geographic.org (English)