Mount stump

Mount stump
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height	2490 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains
Coordinates	86 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 86 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Stump is a 2490 m high and mainly un-iced mountain in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the southeastern part of the Hays Mountains, it rises 1.5 km north-northeast of Mount Colbert and 3 km northeast of Mount Borcik .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American geologist Edmund Stump (* 1946) from Arizona State University , who participated in the United States Antarctic Research Program between 1970 and 1981 in explorations of the Shackleton Glacier , the Duncan Mountains , the Leverett Glacier , the Scott Glacier and the La Gorce Mountains , and from 1981 to 1986 the explorations in northern Victoria Land , in the Antarctic dry valleys and in the area of the Nimrod Glacier .

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