Mount Stahlman

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Mount Stahlman
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 Coordinates: 85 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  S , 151 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Stahlman (Antarctica)
Mount Stahlman

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.

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