Mount Greenlee
| Mount Greenlee | ||
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| height | 2030 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 177 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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 Topographic map of Shackleton Glacier with Mount Greenlee (bottom left) |
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Mount Greenlee is a 2030 m high, steep-walled and rugged mountain made of metamorphic rock in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises just east of Mount Butters on the western flank of the Shackleton Glacier .
The American geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), leader of the Texas Tech University expedition to explore the Shackleton Glacier (1962-1963), named him after David W. Greenlee, a member of the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Greenlee in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Greenlee on geographic.org (English)