Mount Marks
| Mount Marks | ||
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| height | 2600 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Worcester Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Marks is a massive, icy and around 2600 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Worcester Range it rises 8 km north-northwest of Mount Speyer .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after the Australian astrophysicist Rodney Marks (1968-2000), who died on May 12, 2000 at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station as a result of methanol poisoning .
Web links
- Mount Marks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Marks on geographic.org (English)