Mount Doumani

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Mount Doumani
height 3240  m
location Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 137 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 137 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Doumani (Antarctica)
Mount Doumani
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Doumani is a striking and 3240  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it looms between the Johns Glacier and the Kansas Glacier on the north side of the Watson Escarpment .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the geologist George Alexander Doumani (* 1929), who worked at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1959 and explored the Horlick Mountains and Mount Weaver in later years .

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