Mount Estes
| Mount Estes | ||
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Black Island , Ross Archipelago , Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Estes is a 600 m high and flattened mountain on Black Island in the Antarctic Ross Archipelago . It rises 4 km south of Mount Aurora and is similar in shape to the massif of Cape Beck at the southern end of the island.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1999 after the US geophysicist Steve A. Estes of the University of Alaska Fairbanks , who studied the seismic conditions of Mount Erebus on neighboring Ross Island in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1980 and 1982 .
Web links
- Mount Estes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Estes on geographic.org (English)