Mount Skinner
| Mount Skinner | ||
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| height | 1060 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Olav Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 171 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Skinner is a 1060 m high table mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises with an extension of 5 km long and 3 km wide immediately south of the Bravo Hills in the lower foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains near the Ross Ice Shelf between the Gough and Le Couteur glaciers .
Members of a team to explore the Ross Ice Shelf (1957-1958) under the direction of the US geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997) carried out a geodetic survey. Crary named the mountain after Bernard Walter Skinner (1911–1951), aircraft and tractor mechanic on the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd .
Web links
- Mount Skinner in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Skinner on geographic.org (English)