Mount Avers
| Mount Avers | ||
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| height | 939 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Fosdick Mountains , Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Avers is a 939 m high mountain in the Ford Ranges in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land , which towers about three kilometers north of Mount Ferranto in the Fosdick Mountains .
He was discovered during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) under the direction of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The mountain is named after Henry G. Avers (1886-1947), chief mathematician of the National Geodetic Survey and member of the committee of the National Geographic Society , which confirmed Byrd's overflights from the North (1926) and South Pole (1929).
Web links
- Mount Avers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Avers on geographic.org (English)