Mount Hawkes
| Mount Hawkes | ||
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| height | 1975 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 54 '58 " S , 56 ° 4' 59" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hawkes is a striking and 1975 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . It is the highest point along the Washington Escarpment and looms in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains on the east side of the Jones Valley .
The mountain was discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 during the non-stop transantarctic flight from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back during the United States Navy's first Operation Deep Freeze . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1957 after William Michael Hawkes (1910-1994), co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune , with which this flight was accomplished.
Web links
- Mount Hawkes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hawkes on geographic.org (English)