Mount Holmboe
| Mount Holmboe | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 1730 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | |
|
||
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Holmboe is a 1730 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 1.5 km north of Mount Liavaag and 11 km northwest of Mount Weems at the extreme northern end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1961 after the Norwegian-American meteorologist Jørgen Holmboe (1902-1979), participant in Ellsworth's Antarctic expedition from 1933 to 1933 1934.
Web links
- Mount Holmboe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Holmboe on geographic.org (English)