Mount Oona
| Mount Oona | ||
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| height | 2170 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Oona is a 2170 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises at the northern end of a ridge between the Helm and Lowery glaciers in the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the Estonian geophysicist Hain Oona (* 1945), aurora researcher of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1964.
Web links
- Mount Oona in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Oona on geographic.org (English)