Mount Suydam
| Mount Suydam | ||
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| height | 1020 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 31 ′ 59 ″ S , 65 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Suydam is a 1020 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 5 km west of Clark Ridge in the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of 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 Ervin Lynn Suydam (1941-2016), a biologist at the Palmer Station in Antarctic winter 1967.
Web links
- Mount Suydam in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Suydam on geographic.org (English)