Mount Dewar
Mount Dewar | ||
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height | 1600 m | |
location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 32 ′ 3 ″ S , 21 ° 9 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Dewar is an approximately 1,600 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, approximately 1,500 m ) high mountain in the East Antarctic Coatsland . It rises southwest of Aronson Corner in the Pioneers Escarpment of the Shackleton Range .
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out a survey between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1971 after the British physical chemist James Dewar (1842-1923), who in 1892 developed the first functional thermos bottle .
Web links
- Mount Dewar in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dewar on geographic.org (English)