Mount Carbone
| Mount Carbone | ||
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| height | 579 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Carbone is a 579 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges belonging Phillips Mountains he penetrates 5 km east of Mount Paige on.
Participants in the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) under the direction of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered and mapped it using aerial photographs. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Alphonso Carbone (1907-1983), cook in Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Mount Carbone in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Carbone on geographic.org (English)