Mount Astor

Mount Astor
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height	3710 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains
Coordinates	86 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 86 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Astor is a prominent mountain of 3710 m in the Queen Maud Mountains . It is located about two miles north of Mount Bowser in the Hays Mountains .

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him on his flight to the geographic South Pole in November 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) and named him after the entrepreneur and philanthropist Vincent Astor (1891-1959), a member of the Astor family and Sponsor of the expedition.

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