Mount Saltonstall
| Mount Saltonstall | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 2975 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
|
||
Mount Saltonstall is a 2975 m high and flattened mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south of Mount Innes-Taylor on the southern flank of the Poulter Glacier .
A team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered him in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after John Lee Saltonstall Sr. (1878-1959), a banker from Beverly , Massachusetts and sponsor of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Saltonstall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Saltonstall on geographic.org (English)