Mount Howe
| Mount Howe | ||
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| height | 2930 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 87 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 149 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
| particularities | southernmost mountain in the world | |
Mount Howe is an elongated mountain of 2,930 m altitude, the low at the base of mountain ridges and gable Nunatakker followed. It rises on the east flank of Scott Glacier across from Mount McIntyre . Mount Howe, including its much smaller, southern witness mountains, is the southernmost mountain in the world at a distance of around 287 km from the geographic South Pole .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team of the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after the journalist Louis McHenry Howe (1871-1936), a political advisor to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt .
Web links
- Mount Howe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Howe on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Howe on polnet.org (accessed December 4, 2015).