Mount Deardorff

Mount Deardorff
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height	2380 m
location	Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency )
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Deardorff is a 2380 m high and distinctive mountain peak in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises from a massive mountain range between the heads of the Moffett and Steagall glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains .

The mountain was first mapped during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) using measurements and aerial photographs. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the US radiation researcher John Evan Deardorff (* 1941), who worked at McMurdo Station in 1964 .

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