Mount Dayton
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 Topographic map with Mount Dayton (left of center) |
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| height | 1420 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Dayton is a 1420 m high and mainly un-iced mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Hays Mountains, it rises 8 km west of Mount Goodale on the eastern flank of the Amundsen Glacier .
Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) mapped it using their own measurements and aerial photographs. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1967 after Paul Kuykendall Dayton III. (* 1941), biologist at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1964.
Web links
- Mount Dayton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dayton on geographic.org (English)