Mount Powell
| Mount Powell | ||
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| height | 2195 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Powell is a 2195 m high and distinctive mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises in a small massif with King Peak in the eastern section of the Thiel Mountains .
Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), second director of the survey from 1881 to 1894.
Web links
- Mount Powell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Powell on geographic.org (English)