Mount Belecz
| Mount Belecz | ||
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 Topographic map with Mount Belecz (left) |
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| height | 2120 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quarles Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Belecz is a 2120 m high mountain with a flattened peak in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 10 km northeast of Mount Ruth Gade in the Quarles Range .
The first mapping was carried out on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs of the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Dan Michael Belecz, a meteorologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1962.
Web links
- Mount Belecz in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Belecz on geographic.org (English)