Mount Innes-Taylor
| Mount Innes-Taylor | ||
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| height | 2730 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Innes-Taylor is a 2730 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 1.5 km north of Mount Saltonstall on the southern flank of the Poulter Glacier .
A team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered him in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after Alan Innes-Taylor (1900–1983), head of the operation of the routes laid out on this research trip.
Web links
- Mount Innes-Taylor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Innes-Taylor on geographic.org (English)