Mount Nash
Mount Nash | ||
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height | 1295 m | |
location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
Mountains | Hutton Mountains | |
Coordinates | 74 ° 13 '54 " S , 62 ° 22' 33" W | |
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Mount Nash is a 1295 m high mountain on the Lassiter coast of the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Hutton Mountains, it rises 21 km west-northwest of the head end of Keller Inlet and 19 km north-northeast of Mount Owen .
Participants in the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) discovered it from the air. Expedition leader Finn Ronne named him after Henry R. Nash, then curator of the Carnegie Museum of Art's art collection and sponsor of the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Nash in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Nash on geographic.org (English)