Mount Carnes
| Mount Carnes | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Carnes is a mountain in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 3 km east of Saint Pauls Mountain .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after Philip A. Carnes, engineer and construction coordinator of the company Antarctic Support Services , who was responsible for the expansion and maintenance of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station , the Siple , as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1973 to 1976 -Station and McMurdo station monitored.
Web links
- Mount Carnes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Carnes on geographic.org (English)