Mount Sharp (Antarctica)
| Mount Sharp | ||
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| height | 3000 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Alf is a 3000 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 3 km southeast of Mount Barden in the northern part of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
It was mapped by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. This named the mountain after the American glaciologist Robert Philip Sharp (1911-2004), a member of the technical Committee on Glaciology, United States National Committee for the International Geophysical Year (1957–1958).
Web links
- Mount Sharp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sharp on geographic.org (English)