Mount Kaplan
| Mount Kaplan | ||
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| height | 4230 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hughes Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kaplan is a massive mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It is the highest point of the Hughes Range in the Queen Maud Mountains and rises about 5 km southeast of Mount Wexler .
He was discovered by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd during a reconnaissance flight on November 18, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition, the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The area was explored by the geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1987) from 1957 to 1958, who named the mountain after the physicist Joseph Kaplan (1902-1991), the chairman of the US committee for the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958 .
Web links
- Mount Kaplan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kaplan on geographic.org (English)