Mount Stancliff
| Mount Stancliff | ||
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| height | 450 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denfeld Mountains Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Stancliff is a 450 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Denfeld Mountains of the Ford Ranges, it rises 5 km northeast of Saunders Mountain on the southern flank of Crevasse Valley Glacier .
Members of a sled team discovered him in November 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . They named him after Olin Dana Stancliff (1905-2003), who had belonged to this team.
Web links
- Mount Stancliff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stancliff on geographic.org (English)