Mount Hastings
| Mount Hastings | ||
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| height | 628 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Karo Hills , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hastings is a 628 m high mountain in Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Karo Hills, it rises 3 km southeast of Mount Rigby on the western flank of the Scott Glacier .
The first sighting in 1928 goes back to participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1967 after James V. Hastings, who carried out geomagnetic surveys at McMurdo Station between 1964 and 1965 .
Web links
- Mount Hastings in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hastings on geographic.org (English)