Mount Light
| Mount Light | ||
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| height | 1010 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Hutton Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 58 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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Mount Light is a 1010 m high mountain on the Lassiter coast of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Hutton Mountains it rises 10 km east-southeast of Mount Nash on the southern flank of the Barcus Glacier .
Participants of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) mapped him in collaboration with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey on a sled excursion. Expedition leader Finn Ronne named him after Richard Upjohn Light (1902-1994), then President of the American Geographical Society .
Web links
- Mount Light in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Light on geographic.org (English)