Mount Blood
| Mount Blood | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Blood is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises at the mouth of the Somero Glacier and the Liv Glacier and 4 km northeast of Mount Johnstone .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Richard H. Blood, ionospheric physicist for the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1965.
Web links
- Mount Blood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Blood on geographic.org (English)