Mount Korsch
| Mount Korsch | ||
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| height | 4000 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | December 3, 1985 (Korsch, Stump and Edgerton) | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Korsch is a pyramid-shaped mountain about 4000 m high in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range, it rises on the northwestern edge of the Markham Plateau .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1988 after the Australian geologist Russel J. Korsch (* 1948), who made the first ascent on December 3, 1985, together with his American colleagues Edmund Stump (* 1946) and David G. Edgerton .
Web links
- Mount Korsch in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Korsch on geographic.org (English)