Mount Burnham (Marie Byrd Land)
| Mount Burnham | ||
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| height | 1170 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Burnham is a 1,170 m high mountain that rises about 3 km north of Mount Van Valkenburg in the Clark Mountains belonging to the Ford Ranges in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered him during overflights from West Base . The mountain is named after the American cartographer Guy Harvey Burnham (1895–1972) from the School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts . There is a risk of confusion with the mountain of the same name in the Antarctic Victoria Land .
Web links
- Mount Burnham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Burnham on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 250 (English).