Mount Dougherty
| Mount Dougherty | ||
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| height | 2790 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Dougherty is a 2790 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises in the northern part of the Queen Elizabeth Range from a mountain ridge with north-south orientation between the mountains Mount Sandved and Mount Cara .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own tellurometer measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Ellsworth C. Dougherty (1921-1965), biologist of the United States States Antarctic Research Program on McMurdo Sound from 1959 to 1960 and from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Mount Dougherty in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dougherty on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Howard Ferris and WF Hieb (2015): Ellsworth C. Dougherty: A Pioneer in the Selection of Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism. In: Genetics , Vol. 200, No. 4, pp. 991-1002, doi : 10.1534 / genetics.115.178913 (English, accessed on January 9, 2016).