Mount Gardner
Mount Gardner | ||
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Mount Gardner from the southwest |
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height | 4587 m | |
location | West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
Notch height | 487 m | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 24 '13 " S , 85 ° 57' 49" W | |
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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.
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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