Mount Falla
| Mount Falla | ||
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| height | 3825 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Falla is a 3825 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 6 km northeast of Mount Stonehouse between the Berwick and Prebble glaciers .
As the first sighted him on January 9, 1958, the New Zealand crew on the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). It is named after the New Zealand ornithologist Robert Alexander Falla (1901–1979), a member of the expedition committee.
Web links
- Mount Falla in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Falla on geographic.org (English)