Mount there
| Mount there | ||
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| height | 2250 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 54 '0 " S , 158 ° 53' 0" W | |
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The Mount There is a 2250 m high and striking ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises at the confluence of the Cappellari Glacier and the Amundsen Glacier .
Participants in the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after the US geologist Wakefield Dort Jr. (* 1923) from the University of Kansas , who worked at McMurdo Station from 1965 to 1966 and as an exchange scientist on the Antarctic winter 1967 Japanese Shōwa station had worked.
Web links
- Mount, where the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount there on geographic.org (English)