Mount Van Valkenburg
| Mount Van Valkenburg | ||
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| height | 1165 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Van Valkenburg is a 1165 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It rises about 2 km south of Mount Burnham in the Clark Mountains belonging to the Ford Ranges .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered him during overflights from West Base . The mountain is named after Samuel Van Valkenburg (1891-1976), director of the School of Geography at Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts .
Web links
- Mount Van Valkenburg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Van Valkenburg on geographic.org (English)