Mount Rich
| Mount Rich | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Rich is an isolated mountaintop in the Brown Hills of the Cook Mountains in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . It rises 8 km northwest of Diamond Hill .
Participants in a 1962-1963 campaign as part of New Zealand's Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions made a map. It is named after the American geologist Charles C. Rich (* 1922) from the United States Antarctic Research Program , deputy head of the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Rich in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rich on geographic.org (English)