Mount Langway
| Mount Langway | ||
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| height | 760 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ickes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 139 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Langway is a 760 m high mountain near the Ruppert coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises 4 km southwest of Mount LeMasurier in the Ickes Mountains .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) took the first aerial photographs . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1970 after Chester Charles Langway Jr. (* 1929), glaciologist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at Byrd Station from 1968 to 1969.
Web links
- Mount Langway in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Langway on geographic.org (English)