Mount Hamilton (Tapley Mountains)
| Mount Hamilton | ||
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| height | 1410 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tapley Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 151 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Hamilton is a 1,410 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . At the western end of the Tapley Mountains, it rises on the eastern flank of the lower section of the Scott Glacier .
A team of geologists around Laurence McKinley Gould discovered him in December 1929 during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Another team of geologists around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) visited him in December 1934 on Richard Evelyn Byrd's second expedition (1933-1935). Byrd named him after Guy Clarence Hamilton (1879-1950), managing director of the media company The McClatchy Company and sponsor of the second expedition.
Web links
- Mount Hamilton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hamilton on geographic.org (English)