Mount Crabtree

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Mount Crabtree
height 820  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Swanson Mountains , Ford Ranges
Coordinates 77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  S , 144 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Crabtree (Antarctica)
Mount Crabtree
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Crabtree is a 820  m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises 6 km east-southeast of Mount Fonda in the north-central part of the Swanson Mountains in the Ford Ranges .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. It is named after the biologist Ernest Granville Crabtree (1883-1947), who worked as a consultant in the preparations for Operation Deep Freeze I (1955-1956).

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