Mount Gould (Antarctica)
| Mount Gould | ||
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| height | 2385 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Tapley Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 148 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Gould is a 2385 m high and largely ice-free mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It towers over the center of the Tapley Mountains .
A team around the US geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) discovered him in December 1929 as part of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930) under the direction of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after Gould.
Web links
- Mount Gould in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gould on geographic.org (English)