Mount Campbell (Antarctica)
| Mount Campbell | ||
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| height | 3790 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Campbell is a prominent and 3790 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 5.5 km southeast of Mount Wade in the Prince Olav Mountains .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed him. The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911–1997) surveyed the mountain between 1957 and 1958. Crary named the mountain after Joel Campbell of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey , a project leader researching the Earth's magnetic field in Antarctica between 1957 and 1960.
Web links
- Mount Campbell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Campbell on geographic.org (English)