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 | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Hanson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hanson on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Malcom Parker Hanson in the Find a Grave database (accessed June 23, 2017).