Mount Nelson (Antarctica)
| Mount Nelson | ||
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| height | 1930 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Nelson is a 1930 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 5 km northeast of Mount Pulitzer on the western flank of the Scott Glacier .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Randy L. Nelson, who carried out satellite geodetic surveys at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1965 .
Web links
- Mount Nelson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Nelson on geographic.org (English)