Mount Baker (Antarctica)
| Mount Baker | ||
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| height | 1480 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Baker is a 1480 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 10 km east of Amphibole Peak and west of Gough Glacier in the southeastern part of the Gabbro Hills near the southern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf .
Members of a team to explore the Ross Ice Shelf (1957-1958) under the direction of the US geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997) discovered him. Crary named the mountain after the American mycologist Gladys Elizabeth Baker (1908-2007), who was involved in the identification and classification of Antarctic lichens on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Baker in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Baker on geographic.org (English)