Mount Noville
| Mount Noville | ||
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| height | 2410 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Noville is a 2,410 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6 km east of Mount Bowlin between the Van Reeth Glacier and the Robison 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 US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named the mountain after George Otto Noville (1890–1963), director of this expedition.
Web links
- Mount Noville in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Noville on geographic.org (English)