Mount Dewey
| Mount Dewey | ||
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| height | 1830 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 54 ′ 24 ″ S , 64 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Dewey is a 1,830 m high mountain on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 13 km southeast of Mount Cheops .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped it. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him on July 7, 1959 after the American librarian Melvil Dewey (1851-1932), inventor of the Dewey decimal classification named after him for classifying literary works in libraries .
Web links
- Mount Dewey in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dewey on geographic.org (English)