Mount Hanson

Mount Hanson
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height	800 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Harold Byrd Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 147 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 147 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Hanson is a 800 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Harold Byrd Mountains, it rises 1.5 km southeast of Supporting Party Mountain .

The geological team around Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) discovered him in December 1929 during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Expedition leader Richard Evelyn Byrd named him after Malcolm Parker Hanson (1894-1942), chief radio engineer on this research trip and pioneer in the development of radio equipment for communication in polar regions.

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