Mount Early
| Mount Early | ||
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| height | 2720 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 87 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Early is a 2,720 m high, solitary volcanic cone in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises around 21 km north of D'Angelo Bluff on the west side of the area where the Scott Glacier was formed.
It was discovered in December 1934 from nearby Mount Weaver by the geological team of the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . On November 21, 1962, geologists from the Institute for Polar Research at Ohio State University under the direction of George Doumani (* 1929) visited the mountain for the first time. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after Neal Edward Earley [sic] (1936-1982), a member of the flight readiness in support of the United States Geological Survey for the geodetic survey of the area from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Mount Early in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Early on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 472 (English).