Mount Bishop

Mount Bishop
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height	3020 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 83 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Bishop is a 3020 m high and prominent mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains it rises 3 km south of the Ahmadjian Peak .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Barry Chapman Bishop (1932-1994) of the United States Air Force , extreme mountaineer, participant in an Argentine Antarctic expedition that lasted from 1956 to 1957 and from 1958 to 1959 a member of the staff of the United States Antarctic Program .

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