Mount Kenyon
Mount Kenyon | ||
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height | 2260 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Kenyon is a 2260 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern part of the Cumulus Hills of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 1.5 km northwest of Shenk Peak .
The American geologist Franklin Alton Wade (1903-1978), head of the team of the United States Antarctic Research Program to explore the Shackleton Glacier between 1962 and 1963 named him after his alma mater , the Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio .
Web links
- Mount Kenyon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kenyon on geographic.org (English)