Mount Nilsen

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Mount Nilsen
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Nilsen (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Nilsen (bottom left)

height 702  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 155 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Nilsen (Antarctica)
Mount Nilsen

Mount Nilsen is a 702  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises 6 km west-southwest of Mount Paterson in the Rockefeller Mountains .

It was discovered in 1929 during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . He named him after the Norwegian Oscar Nilsen (1887–1972), captain of the whaling ship C. A. Larsen , with whose help Byrd's ship City of New York was towed through the Antarctic pack ice .

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