Mount Farley
| Mount Farley | ||
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| height | 2670 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 152 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Farley is a 2670 m high and prominent mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises on the western flank of Scott Glacier at a distance of 3 miles east of McNally Peak .
The team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered the mountain in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after the American politician James Farley (1888-1976), then the United States Postmaster General .
Web links
- Mount Farley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Farley on geographic.org (English)