Mount Dewar

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Mount Dewar
height 1600  m
location Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  S , 21 ° 9 ′ 30 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  S , 21 ° 9 ′ 30 ″  W
Mount Dewar (Antarctica)
Mount Dewar
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 .

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