Mount Kenyon

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Mount Kenyon
height 2260  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Kenyon (Antarctica)
Mount Kenyon
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 .

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