Mount Stahlman
Mount Stahlman | ||
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height | 1000 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Tapley Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 151 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Stahlman is a 1000 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the western end of the Tapley Mountains, it rises between Mount Wallace and Mount Hamilton on the eastern flank of the Scott Glacier .
A team of geologists around Laurence McKinley Gould discovered him in December 1929 during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930). Another team of geologists around Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) visited him in December 1934 on Richard Evelyn Byrd's second expedition (1933-1935). Byrd named him after the newspaper publisher James Geddes Stahlman (1893-1976) from Nashville , a sponsor of the second expedition.
Web links
- Mount Stahlman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stahlman on geographic.org (English)