Mount Ostenso
| Mount Ostenso | ||
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| height | 4180 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ostenso is a 4180 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 3 km south of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
It was mapped by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. They named the mountain after the American geophysicist Ned A. Ostenso (1930-1997), a member of this Crew and seismologist at Byrd Station in 1957.
Web links
- Mount Ostenso in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ostenso on geographic.org (English)