Mount Henson
| Mount Henson | ||
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| height | 905 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Henson is a 905 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises in the lower foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains at the northeastern end of the Mayer Crags , where who represents the northwest boundary of the confluence of the Liv Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf .
Participants of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered and photographed him in November 1929. It is named after Matthew Henson (1966–1955), a member of the team around the American polar explorer Robert Edwin Peary , which is said to have been the first on 6 April 1909 reached the geographic North Pole.
Web links
- Mount Henson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Henson on geographic.org (English)