Mount Paterson (Rockefeller Mountains)
Mount Paterson | ||
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Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Paterson (bottom left) |
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height | 690 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Rockefeller Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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
- Mount Paterson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Paterson on geographic.org (English)