Mount Don Pedro Christophersen
| Mount Don Pedro Christophersen | ||
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| height | 3765 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Don Pedro Christophersen is a massive, mostly icy, gabled and 3765 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It towers over the watershed between the head ends of the Axel-Heiberg and Cooper glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains .
The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen discovered him in November 1911 during his South Pole expedition (1910-1912) and named him after Pedro Christophersen Petersen (1845-1930), an Argentinian sponsor of the expedition from Norway.
Web links
- Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Don Pedro Christophersen on geographic.org (English)