Mount Gale
| Mount Gale | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Anare Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Gale is a mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises as the northern extension of the Frecker Ridge ridge in the Anare Mountains on the south side of the confluence of the Ludvig and Kirkby glaciers .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after D'Arcy Thomas Gale (* 1911), hydrograph during a research trip of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions on the ship Thala Dan , with which the coast off the mountain was explored in 1962 .
Web links
- Mount Gale in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gale on geographic.org (English)