Mount Roth
| Mount Roth | ||
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| height | 870 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Roth is a 870 m high mountain on the Dufek coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the northeastern foothills of the Gabbro Hills, it rises 5 km east of Mount Justman .
He was discovered and photographed during the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930). The expedition leader Richard Evelyn Byrd named him after Benjamin Roth (1892-1967), mechanic and envoy of the United States Army on this research trip .
Web links
- Mount Roth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Roth on geographic.org (English)