Mount Franklin (Antarctica)

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Mount Franklin
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Franklin (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Franklin (bottom left)

height 450  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Franklin (Antarctica) (Antarctica)
Mount Franklin (Antarctica)

Mount Franklin is a 450  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises in the southern group of the Rockefeller Mountains between Breckinridge Peak and Washington Ridge .

It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The designation took place in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), also led by Byrd . The namesake is not known.

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