Mount Ellsworth

Mount Ellsworth
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height	2925 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

The Mount Ellsworth is a 2,925 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is the highest peak between the Steagall - and the Amundsen Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains .

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him in late November 1929 while he was flying over Antarctica during his first expedition to the South Pole (1928–1930). The mountain is named after the American aviation pioneer and polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth .

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