Mount Fleming
| Mount Fleming | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Fleming is a 2200 m high mountain in the Asgard Range in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the southwest side of the Airdevronsix Icefalls and the Upper Wright Glacier .
The New Zealand Northern Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named the mountain after the New Zealand paleontologist Charles Alexander Fleming (1916-1987), employee of the New Zealand Geological Survey and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society for the Study of Antarctica.
Web links
- Mount Fleming in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fleming on geographic.org (English)