Mount Munson
| Mount Munson | ||
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| height | 2800 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Munson is a 2800 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises 3 miles northwest of the summit of Mount Wade in the Prince Olav Mountains .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him in November 1929 on a flight over the Queen Maud Mountains . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1962 after Captain William Harvey Munson of the United States Navy , commanding officer of the VX-6 squadron between 1959 and 1961.
Web links
- Mount Munson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Munson on geographic.org (English)