Mount Larsen (Viktorialand)
| Mount Larsen | ||
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| height | 1560 m | |
| location | Viktorialand , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 51 '0 " S , 162 ° 12' 0" E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Larsen is a 1560 m high mountain with steep granite cliffs on the northern flank in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains it rises about 5 km southwest of the Hansen Nunatak on the south side of the Reeves Glacier formation zone .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. It is named for the Norwegian Carl Anton Larsen (1860–1924), a participant in the simultaneous Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903).
Web links
- Mount Larsen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Larsen on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Larsen. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 187 (English)