Mount Pulitzer
| Mount Pulitzer | ||
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| height | 2155 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Pulitzer is a striking and 2155 m high mountain in Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 11 km northeast of Mount Griffith from an elevated plain between the Koerwitz Glacier and the Vaughan Glacier .
It was discovered in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . It is named after the American newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1885–1955), who was one of the sponsors of this and Byrd's first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930).
Web links
- Mount Pulitzer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Pulitzer on geographic.org (English)