Mount Hale (Antarctica)
| Mount Hale | ||
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| height | 3595 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hale is a 3595 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 2.4 km northwest of Mount Davis in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
He was discovered by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. They named the mountain after Daniel Payne Hale (1926-2005), a member of this team and aurora physicist on the Byrd Station .
Web links
- Mount Hale in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hale on geographic.org (English)