Mount Shideler

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Mount Shideler
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Shideler (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Shideler (bottom left)

height 820  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Shideler (Antarctica)
Mount Shideler

Mount Shideler is a 820  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises in the Rockefeller Mountains 1.5 km southeast of Mount Fitzsimmons .

It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The designation took place in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), also led by Byrd . It is named after the American geologist William Henry Shideler (1886–1958), founder of the chair of geology at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio .

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