Mount Gilruth

Mount Gilruth
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height	3160 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 71 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Gilruth is a 3160 m high and mostly icy mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains it rises 7 km east-northeast of Mount Adam .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the American space engineer Robert Gilruth (1913-2000) from NASA , who was a visitor to the McMurdo station from 1966 to 1967 .

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