Mount Torbert (Antarctica)
| Mount Torbert | ||
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| height | 1675 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 54 ° 24 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Torbert is a 1675 m high, prominent and pyramid-shaped mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises in the middle of the Torbert Escarpment .
The mountain was discovered on January 13, 1956 during the non-stop transcontinental flight of the United States Navy during the first Operation Deep Freeze from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1957 after Lieutenant Commander John Hallett Torbert (1920-1983), the pilot of this flight.
Web links
- Mount Torbert in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Torbert on geographic.org (English)