Mount Rucker
| Mount Rucker | ||
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 Map sheet with Mt. Rücker (3816) in the northwest |
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| height | 3816 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Rucker (synonym: Mount Rücker ) is a 3816 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises south of Johns Hopkins Ridge in the Royal Society Range .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named the mountain after the physicist Arthur William Rucker (1848-1915), Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society .
Web links
- Mount Rucker in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rucker on geographic.org (English)