Mount Speed
| Mount Speed | ||
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| height | 1100 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 176 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Speed is an almost circular, hill-shaped mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises with several peaks of a maximum height of 1,100 m on the southern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf on the west side of the mouth of the Shackleton Glacier .
He was discovered by participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The American geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1997) carried out a survey between 1957 and 1958 and named it after Lieutenant Harvey Guy Speed (1920-1977) of the VX-6 squadron of the United States Navy , who served in 1957 on the Station Little America V overwintered.
Web links
- Mount Speed in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Speed on geographic.org (English)