Mount Maloney
| Mount Maloney | ||
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| height | 1990 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Maloney is a 1990 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6 km north of Mount Alice Gade on the southeast flank of the Bowman Glacier .
Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered and mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1990 after John H. Maloney Jr., a meteorologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.
Web links
- Mount Maloney in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Maloney on geographic.org (English)