Mount Danforth
| Mount Danforth | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Danforth is an over 2000 m high, ice-free and pyramid-shaped mountain in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises in the Queen Maud Mountains on the southern flank of the Albanus Glacier immediately east of Mount Zanuck .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This named him after the American entrepreneur William H. Danforth (1870–1955), founder of the pet food producer Ralston Purina and supporter of the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Danforth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Danforth on geographic.org (English)