Mount Josephine (Antarctica)
| Mount Josephine | ||
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| height | 487 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Alexandra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 152 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Josephine is a 487 m high mountain with prominent rocky outcrops in the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 10 km southeast of Bowman Peak in the Alexandra Mountains .
It was discovered during an overflight on December 5, 1929 during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . He named the mountain in the course of his second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) after Josephine Clay Ford (1923-2005), daughter of Edsel Ford , the then President of the Ford Motor Company and sponsor of both research trips.
Web links
- Mount Josephine in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Josephine on geographic.org (English)