Mount Vaughan
| Mount Vaughan | ||
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| height | 3140 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Mount Vaughan is a 3140 m high and prominent mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . In the Hays Mountains it rises 6 km south-southwest of Mount Griffith from a ridge at the head of the Vaughan Glacier .
The mountain is named after Norman Dane Vaughan (1905-2005), dog sled driver on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930), who was part of the geological team led by Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) in December 1929 when exploring the Hays Mountains was. In the maps of this research trip, this name was assigned to the southern part of Mount Goodale . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names decided in 1952 to transfer this name to the mountain described here, 24 km further south-east. Vaughan climbed the mountain on December 16, 1994, three days before his 89th birthday.
Web links
- Mount Vaughan in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Vaughan on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Norman Vaughan 100th Birday Antarctic Expedition (accessed March 8, 2017).