Mount Clough
| Mount Clough | ||
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| height | 2230 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Clough is a 2230 m high and ice-free mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains . It rises 3 km east of Mount Dort on the south side of the Cappellari Glacier .
Participants in the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the American geophysicist John Wendell Clough (* 1942), who took part in the second crossing of Queen Maud Land from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1965 to 1966 .
Web links
- Mount Clough in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Clough on geographic.org (English)