Mount Fritsche
| Mount Fritsche | ||
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| height | 990 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 59 ′ 39 ″ S , 62 ° 40 ′ 35 ″ W | |
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Mount Fritsche is a 990 m high mountain on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It rises on the north side of the Richthofen Pass on the west bank of Scar Inlet . The mountain is covered with a snow cap and has numerous steep rock faces.
Presumably he was spotted for the first time during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) under Otto Nordenskjöld . The Australian polar explorer Hubert Wilkins mistakenly identified it as the Cape on his overflight on December 20, 1928 and named it after Carl B. Fritsche, President of the Detroit Aircraft Corporation . Wilkins' naming was retained after the true nature of the geographic object was revealed.
Web links
- Mount Fritsche in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fritsche on geographic.org (English)