Mount Holm-Hansen
| Mount Holm-Hansen | ||
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| height | 1920 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Holm-Hansen is a distinctive and 1920 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it looms between the lower David Valley and the Bartley Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 is the Norwegian-born American plant physiologist Osmund Holm-Hansen of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , who between 1959 and 1960 was the first scientist to study both the Taylor Valley and the Wright Valley conducted research.
Web links
- Mount Holm-Hansen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Holm-Hansen on geographic.org (English)