Mount Gerdel
| Mount Gerdel | ||
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| height | 2520 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 149 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Gerdel is a 2520 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It rises in the Queen Maud Mountains on the southern flank of the Albanus Glacier at a distance of 3 km southeast of Mount Andrews .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Lieutenant David Holland Gerdel (1938-2010) of the United States Navy, who was responsible for the Belonged to occupation of Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1965.
Web links
- Mount Gerdel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gerdel on geographic.org (English)