Mount Mende
| Mount Mende | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sky-Hi-Nunatakker | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 50 ′ 28 ″ S , 71 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Mende is an approximately 1500 m high nunatak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 800 m southwest of Mount Lanzerotti in the Sky-Hi-Nunatakkern .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1987 after the American physicist Stephen B. Mende (* 1939) from the Lockheed Research Laboratory in Palo Alto , who was a senior atmospheric researcher at the Siple Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1973 .
Web links
- Mount Mende in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mende on geographic.org (English)