Mount Oliver (Antarctica)
| Mount Oliver | ||
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| height | 3800 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Oliver is a 3800 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 3 km southeast of Mount Campbell in the Prince Olav Mountains .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered and photographed him. The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911–1997) surveyed the mountain between 1957 and 1958. Crary named the mountain after Norman Oliver of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center , project leader for research into the Northern Lights in Antarctica between 1957 and 1960.
Web links
- Mount Oliver in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Oliver on geographic.org (English)