Mount Gardner
| Mount Gardner | ||
|---|---|---|
.jpg) Mount Gardner from the southwest |
||
| height | 4587 m | |
| location | West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Notch height | 487 m | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 24 '13 " S , 85 ° 57' 49" W | |
|
||
| First ascent | 1967 | |
| Normal way | Hochtour glaciated | |
| particularities | Fourth highest mountain in Antarctica | |
At 4587 m, Mount Gardner is the fourth highest mountain in Antarctica . In the West Antarctic Ellsworthland, it rises 2.5 km west of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
history
The mountain, like other high peaks in the Sentinel Range, was discovered in 1957 by the United States Navy reconnaissance flight . Named he who had performed 1957-58 and 1958-59 several reconnaissance flights in Antarctica in the years after the Navy pilots Harvey Eugene Gardner (1928-1959) and in 1959 in a crash with a UB-1 Otter killed came.
The first ascent of Mount Gardner took place in 1967 by mountaineers on an American expedition.
gallery
Map of the Sentinel Range, the highest mountain range in Antarctica.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peakbagger.com: Mount Gardner, Antarctica , accessed December 21, 2014
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 607. (English)
literature
- Vinson Massif. Scale 1: 250,000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1: 250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2012.
- American Alpine Journal : Brian S. Marts: American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition in AAJ 1967, Volume 15, Issue 2, page 251