Mount LeMasurier
| Mount LeMasurier | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ickes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 139 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount LeMasurier is an over 800 m high and ice-free mountain near the Ruppert coast of the West Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It looms in the center of the Ickes Mountains between Mount Vance and Mount Langway .
Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) took the first aerial photographs . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Wesley E. LeMasurier, a geologist who surveyed Marie Byrd Land between 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Mount LeMasurier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount LeMasurier on geographic.org (English)