Mount Stephenson (Britannia Range)
Mount Stephenson | ||
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height | 2400 m | |
location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Stephenson is a 2400 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range it rises 6 km southwest of Mount Quackenbush on the north flank of the Byrd Glacier not far from the head end of the Ramseier Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2001 after Simon N. Stephenson, who was involved in various projects of the British Antarctic Survey , NASA and the National Science Foundation in Antarctica from 1984 to 2001 .
Web links
- Mount Stephenson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stephenson on geographic.org (English)