Mount Balchen
| Mount Balchen | ||
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| height | 3085 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Herbert Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Balchen is a 3,085 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 10 km east of the summit of Mount Fridtjof Nansen in the Herbert Range of the Queen Maud Mountains .
The southern group of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962) named it after the Norwegian polar explorer Bernt Balchen (1899–1973).
Web links
- Mount Balchen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Balchen on geographic.org (English)