Mount Franke
| Mount Franke | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Franke is a 1600 m high mountain with a bare north flank in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises on the western flank of the Shackleton Glacier between Mount Wasko and Mount Cole .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed him. The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997) carried out measurements and naming between 1957 and 1958. It is named after Lieutenant Commander Willard J. Franke of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron , which wintered at Little America V in 1958 .
Web links
- Mount Franke in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Franke on geographic.org (English)