Mount Evans (Antarctica)
| Mount Evans | ||
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| height | 1420 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Evans is a 1420 m high mountain with double peaks in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is the dominant elevation in the center of the Saint Johns Range and looms between the south side of the Debenham Glacier and the Wilson Piedmont Glacier .
He was discovered during the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Scott named him after Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880-1957), deputy leader of Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), who derived his title of nobility from this mountain.
Web links
- Mount Evans in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Evans on geographic.org (English)