Mount Gjertsen
| Mount Gjertsen | ||
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| height | 2420 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | La Gorce Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 148 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Gjertsen is a 2420 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It rises 3 km northeast of Mount Grier in the La Gorce Mountains .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This named him after his Norwegian ice pilot Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsen (1885-1958), who had previously been second mate on board the Fram in the South Pole expedition (1910-1912) of the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen . Byrd took into account the naming of a mountain by Amundsen, which later could not be identified.
Web links
- Mount Gjertsen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gjertsen on geographic.org (English)