Mount Kohler
| Mount Kohler | ||
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| height | 480 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Kohler is a 480 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges, it rises 6 km east of Mount Woodward on the southern flank of the Boyd Glacier .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. The expedition leader Richard Evelyn Byrd named him after Herbert Vollrath Kohler Jr. (* 1939) and Ruth DeYoung Kohler II (1941-1976), son and daughter of the entrepreneur Herbert Vollrath Kohler Sr. (1891-1968), a sponsor of Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Mount Kohler in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kohler on geographic.org (English)