Mount wheel spinner
| Mount wheel spinner | ||
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| height | 1785 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Radspinner is a striking mountain with numerous ridges and a height of 1785 m in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises east of Mount Freed and the Copperstain Ridge in the eastern part of the Bowers Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after Captain Frank Hanly Radspinner Jr. (1934-2009), commander of a helicopter squadron that had supported the work of the United States Geological Survey in this area between 1962 and 1963.
Web links
- Mount Radspinner in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Radspinner on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1271 (English).