Mount Odishaw
| Mount Odishaw | ||
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| height | 3965 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hughes Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 174 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Odishaw is a 3965 m high and prominent mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 15 km south-southwest of Mount Kaplan in the Hughes Range .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him during a reconnaissance flight on November 18, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). The geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1987) explored the area from 1957-1958 and named the mountain after Hugh Odishaw (1916-1984), the executive secretary of the US National Committee for the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958 .
Web links
- Mount Odishaw in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Odishaw on geographic.org (English)