Mount Paige
| Mount Paige | ||
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| height | 672 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Paige is a 672 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges belonging Phillips Mountains he penetrates 5 km west of Mount Carbone on.
Participants in the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) under the direction of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered and mapped it using aerial photographs. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after David Abbey Paige (1901-1979), who worked as a painter and graphic artist for Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935).
Web links
- Mount Paige in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Paige on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about Paige on the Whatcom Museum website (accessed March 10, 2017)