Mount Stearns
| Mount Stearns | ||
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| height | 2670 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Stearns is a 2670 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 2.1 km east of Mount Kempe on the watershed between the head ends of the Kempe and Renegar glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after Charles R. Stearns (1925-2010), meteorologist from the University of Wisconsin , who was involved in the development and construction of automatic weather stations in Antarctica from 1990 to 2006 .
Web links
- Mount Stearns in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stearns on geographic.org (English)