Mount Sellery

Mount Sellery
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height	3895 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 84 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Sellery is a prominent 3895 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It looms between Mount Oliver and Mount Smithson in the Prince Olav Mountains .

The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him during his flight over the Queen Maud Mountains in November 1929. The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911–1997) surveyed the mountain between 1957 and 1958 and named it after Harry Sellery of the United States National Bureau of Standards , project manager for the exploration of the ionosphere in Antarctica between 1957 and 1960.

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