Mount Hall (Lillie Range)
| Mount Hall | ||
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| height | 2430 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hall is a 2430 m high and rocky mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 2.5 km southwest of Mount Daniel from a snow-covered, table mountain -like massif , which forms the southern end of the Lillie Range in the Queen Maud Mountains .
Members of a team to explore the Ross Ice Shelf (1957-1958) under the direction of the US geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997) discovered and photographed him. Crary named the mountain after Lieutenant Commander Ray Eldon Hall, pilot of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron in several Deep Freeze operations .
Web links
- Mount Hall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hall on geographic.org (English)