Mount Fukushima
| Mount Fukushima | ||
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| height | 2470 m | |
| location | Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Fabiola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 35 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Fukushima ( French Mont Fukushima ) is a 2470 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is the highest point in the Queen Fabiola Mountains .
Participants in a Belgian Antarctic expedition lasting from 1959 to 1961 discovered it in 1960. Expedition leader Guido Derom (1923-2005) named the mountain after the Japanese geophysicist Shin Fukushima, who was close in a blizzard in October 1960 during a Japanese Antarctic expedition lasting from 1960 to 1961 the Shōwa station had died.
Web links
- Mount Fukushima in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fukushima on geographic.org (English)