Mount Rea
| Mount Rea | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 490 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
|
||
Mount Rea is a 490 m high and prominent mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It looms in the Ford Ranges between the Arthur and Boyd glaciers . The striking monolith The Billboard rises on its western flank .
He was discovered during an overflight on December 5, 1929 as part of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). Their expedition leader, the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd , named him after the entrepreneurial couple Henry (* 1865) and Katherine Rea (* 1868) from Pittsburgh , sponsors of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Rea in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rea on geographic.org (English)