Mount Behling
| Mount Behling | ||
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| height | 2190 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Behling is a 2190 m high mountain with an icy and flattened peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 8 km north of Mount Ellsworth between the Steagall Glacier and the Whitney Glacier .
Measurements on the ground and the creation of aerial photographs of the mountain were carried out during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Robert Edward Behling (* 1941), glaciologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program who crossed Queen Maud Land from the geographic South Pole between 1965 and 1966.
Web links
- Mount Behling in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Behling on geographic.org (English)