Mount Gleadell
Mount Gleadell | ||
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height | 560 m | |
location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
Coordinates | 66 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Gleadell is a 560 m high, conical and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is the highest point on the east side of Amundsen Bay north of Observation Island .
Participants of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925-2015) sighted the mountain in October 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Jeffrey Desmond Gleadell (* 1911), cook on Mawson Station in 1954.
Web links
- Mount Gleadell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gleadell on geographic.org (English)