Mount Harkness
| Mount Harkness | ||
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| height | 1900 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 150 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Harkness is a 1900 m high mountain on the eastern edge of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the Queen Maud Mountains 2.5 km south of the Organ Pipe Peaks and flanks the Scott Glacier to the east .
The geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered the mountain in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the mountain after Robert Bruce Harkness Jr. (1908–1933), a late friend of expedition member Richard Spofford Russell Jr. (1908–1984).
Web links
- Mount Harkness in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Harkness on geographic.org (English)