Mount Holloway

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Mount Holloway
height 2650  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 84 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 163 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Holloway (Antarctica)
Mount Holloway

Mount Holloway is a 2650  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain , it looms between the Swinford Glacier and Table Bay .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Harry Lee Holloway Jr. (1926-2014) of the United States Antarctic Program , who worked from 1964 to 1965 as a biologist at McMurdo Station .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Harry Lee Holloway Jr. obituary on legacy.com (accessed January 4, 2016).