Mount Stuart (Antarctica)
| Mount Stuart | ||
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| height | 1995 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Monument-Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Stuart is a 1995 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 8 km north of Mount VX-6 from the Monument Nunatakkern .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the American glaciologist Alfred Wright Stuart (1932-2015), who had participated in an exploration expedition in Victoria Land as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1959 to 1960.
Web links
- Mount Stuart in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stuart on geographic.org (English)