Mount Stephens
Mount Stephens | ||
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height | 2065 m | |
location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 83 ° 22 ′ 59 ″ S , 51 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Stephens is a 2065 m high and prominent mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it towers over the western foothills of the Saratoga Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Lieutenant Commander Henry E. Stephens, head of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One at the Construction of Ellsworth Station between January and February 1957.
Web links
- Mount Stephens in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stephens on geographic.org (English)