Mount Shideler
Mount Shideler | ||
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Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Shideler (bottom left) |
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height | 820 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Rockefeller Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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 .
Web links
- Mount Shideler in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Shideler on geographic.org (English)