Mount Salisbury
| Mount Salisbury | ||
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| height | 970 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Karo Hills , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Salisbury is an ice-free and 970 m high mountain in Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises on the western flank of the lower section of Scott Glacier at the southern end of the Karo Hills .
It was first sighted and roughly mapped in December 1929 by the team led by geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after James B. Salisbury, who carried out investigations into cosmic rays at McMurdo Station in 1965 .
Web links
- Mount Salisbury in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Salisbury on geographic.org (English)