Mount Lassell
| Mount Lassell | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 43 '26 " S , 68 ° 47' 31" W | |
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Mount Lassell is a snow-covered and around 1000 m high mountain in the southeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises above the head end of the Neptune Glacier .
The US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth took the first aerial photographs on November 23, 1935, which the US cartographer WLG Joerg used for rough mapping. The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 carried out a detailed mapping using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1961 after the British astronomer William Lassell (1799-1880) who discovered the Uranus moons Umbriel and Ariel and the Neptune moon Triton .
Web links
- Mount Lassell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lassell on geographic.org (English)