Mount Gardiner
| Mount Gardiner | ||
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| height | 2480 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Gardiner is a 2480 m high mountain of granite with a hint of a ridge shape in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5 km east of Mount Ruth and south of the confluence of the Bartlett Glacier in the Scott Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains .
He was discovered by the team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the mountain after Joseph T. Gardiner, the New Zealand agent of this and Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930).
Web links
- Mount Gardiner in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gardiner on geographic.org (English)