Mount Sletten
| Mount Sletten | ||
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| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Sletten is a prominent and rocky mountain in Marie-Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6 km northeast of Mount Pulitzer from the Taylor Ridge on the western flank of the Scott Glacier .
Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) discovered it and made a rough map. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after the satellite geodesist Robert S. Sletten, who worked at McMurdo Station in 1965 .
Web links
- Mount Sletten in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sletten on geographic.org (English)