Mount Craddock

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Mount Craddock
Vinson-Map.jpg
height 4368  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Craddock Massif , Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 85 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 85 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Craddock (Antarctica)
Mount Craddock
First ascent January 1992
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The Mount Craddock is with a height of 4368 meters, the ninth highest mountain of Antarctica . It is located in the Sentinel Range in West Antarctica . The first ascent took place in January 1992.

The name Mount Craddock was proposed by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1965 . It was named after the American geologist John Campbell Craddock (1930-2006), who led an expedition from 1962 to 1963 on behalf of the University of Minnesota , which had geological and cartographic studies of the Heritage Range and the Ellsworth Mountains to the subject.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Antarctica Detail - Mount Craddock. Geographic Names Information System, accessed January 8, 2014 .
  2. a b Damien Gildea & John Splettstoesser: Craddock Massif and Vinson Massif remeasured. US Geological Survey and The National Academies, 2007, accessed January 8, 2014 .