Mount Ronne
| Mount Ronne | ||
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| height | 940 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 146 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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 Topographic map of Hershey Ridge in the Ford Ranges with Mount Ronne (below center) |
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Mount Ronne is a striking, flattened and 940 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises from the central section of the east side of the Haines Mountains in the Ford Ranges .
Participants of the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd probably spotted him for the first time during an overflight. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after the Norwegian polar explorer Martin Rønne (1861-1932), a participant in this and in the South Pole expedition (1910-1912) of his compatriot Roald Amundsen and father of the US polar explorer Finn Ronne .
Web links
- Mount Ronne in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ronne on geographic.org (English)