Mount Rees (Crary Mountains)
| Mount Rees | ||
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| height | 2709 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Crary Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 118 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Type | Shield volcano , extinct | |
 Topographic map of the Crary Mountains with Mount Rees (scale 1: 250,000) |
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The Mount Rees is a 2,709 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises 11 km northwest of Mount Steere at the northern end of the Crary Mountains .
Like all mountains in the Crary Mountains, Mount Rees is of volcanic origin. It was formed around 9.5 to 9 million years ago, making it the oldest mountain in these mountains.
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1967 after Manfred H. Rees, aurora researcher at Byrd Station between 1965 and 1966 .
Web links
- Mount Rees in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rees on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kurt S. Panter et al .: Geochemistry of Late Cenozoic basalts from the Crary Mountains: characterization of mantle sources in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica . In: Chemical Geology . tape 165 , no. 3-4 , April 2000, ISSN 0009-2541 , pp. 215–241 , doi : 10.1016 / S0009-2541 (99) 00171-0 (English, freely available online through researchgate.net ).