Mount Crawford (Antarctica)
| Mount Crawford | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 2360 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
|
||
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Crawford is a mountain with two peaks with heights of 2360 m and 2255 m in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 5.5 km northwest of Mount Dawson in the northern part of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him on his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1961 after William B. Crawford Jr. of the special mapping department of the United States Geological Survey , who carried out the 1962 survey published map of the Sentinel Range.
Web links
- Mount Crawford in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Crawford on geographic.org (English)