Mount Crockett
| Mount Crockett | ||
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| height | 3470 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Crockett is a prominent mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains at an altitude of 2250 m . It is located about 3 km east of Mount Astor .
He was discovered by the team around the geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the mountain after Frederick E. Crockett (1907–1978), a member of the group. The geographic location was corrected during Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935).
Web links
- Mount Crockett in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Crockett on geographic.org (English)