Mount Bumstead
| Mount Bumstead | ||
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| height | 2990 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grosvenor Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Bumstead is a 2990 m high solitary mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 15 km southeast of the Otway massif in the Grosvenor Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him during his South Pole flight in November 1929. Byrd named him after Albert H. Bumstead (1885-1940), senior cartographer of the National Geographic Society and developer of a solar compass , the Byrd used for his South Pole flight as a navigational aid began.
Web links
- Mount Bumstead in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bumstead on geographic.org (English)