Mount marvel

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Mount marvel
height 1540  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Van Allen Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Marvel (Antarctica)
Mount marvel

Mount Marvel is a 1,540  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Van Allen Range, it rises 11 km south of Escalade Peak near the head of the Mulock Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after Commander Robert Marvel (1917-1997) of the United States Navy , head of Detachment Alpha at McMurdo Station in 1963.

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