Mount Liavaag
| Mount Liavaag | ||
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| height | 1820 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Liavaag is a 1,820 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . It rises between Mount Holmboe and the Holth Peaks near the northern end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Lauritz Ludvig Martin Liavåg (1892 – unknown), first mate on the ship Wyatt Earp for Ellsworth's Antarctic expedition from 1935 to 1935 1936 and participant in two previous Antarctic expeditions.
Web links
- Mount Liavaag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Liavaag on geographic.org (English)