Mount Manthe
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 Southern part of the Hudson Mountains with Mount Manthe to the left above the center of the picture (oblique aerial view from the west) |
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| height | 576 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hudson Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| Age of the rock | Miocene | |
Mount Manthe is a 576 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It is the southernmost of the three heavily eroded Miocene stratovolcanoes that essentially make up the Hudson Mountains . It rises 6 km northeast of the Shepherd Dome .
United States Navy aerial photographs taken during Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1968 after Lawrene L. Manthe (1938–2007), a meteorologist at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- Hudson Mountains in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English).
- Antarctica Detail - Mount Manthe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey .
- Geographical Names - Manthe, Mount, Antarctica. In: geographic.org. (English).