Mount Davis (Antarctica)
| Mount Davis | ||
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| height | 3800 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Davis is a 3800 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.6 km north of Mount Bentley in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
It was discovered by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. They named the mountain after the US geophysicist Leo E. Davis, geomagnetologist and seismologist on the Byrd- Station in 1957.
Web links
- Mount Davis in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Davis on geographic.org (English)