Mount Paterson (Rockefeller Mountains)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Paterson
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Paterson (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Paterson (bottom left)

height 690  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Paterson (Rockefeller Mountains) (Antarctica)
Mount Paterson (Rockefeller Mountains)

Mount Paterson is a 690  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises 3 km northeast of Mount Schlossbach in the Rockefeller Mountains .

It was discovered in 1929 during the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) by the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This named him after the American entrepreneur Seward Mitchell Paterson (1875–1971) from Boston , who equipped Byrd's research trip with shoes and snow boots.

Web links