Mount Augustana

Mount Augustana
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height	2800 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Cumulus Hills , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 13 '36 " S , 174 ° 21' 12" W Coordinates: 85 ° 13 '36 " S , 174 ° 21' 12" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Augustana is a 2800 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern Cumulus Hills of the Queen Maud Mountains , it looms between the head ends of the LaPrade Valley and the Cheu Valley . Its northern slopes are rugged, largely ice-free and drop steeply 1500 m to the McGregor Glacier . Its southern part is covered with ice and tapers slowly towards the head of the Logie Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 2008 after Augustana College in Rock Island , Illinois , in recognition of its long history of research into polar and glacial geology. The associated Fryxell Geology Museum houses fossils of dinosaurs of the genus Cryolophosaurus , the largest predatory dinosaur so far recorded in Antarctica .

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