Mount Ruth
| Mount Ruth | ||
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| height | 2710 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 151 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ruth is a 2710 m high mountain in the shape of a ridge in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5 km west of Mount Gardiner on the southeast flank of the Bartlett Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains .
The team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) on the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him. Byrd named the mountain after Ruth Carolyn Black (nee Schlaberg, 1906-1934), the late wife of the expedition member Richard Blackburn Black , who was responsible for seismic and geodetic surveys and for looking after the radio at Little America II station .
Web links
- Mount Ruth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ruth on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1 and 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 169 and 1341 (English).