Mount Verhage
| Mount Verhage | ||
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| height | 2450 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Verhage is a prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land at an altitude of 2,450 m , which rises in the area where the Smithson Glacier was formed in the Bowers Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1970 after Lieutenant Ronald Glenn Verhage (* 1939) of the United States Navy , a replenishment officer at McMurdo Station in the winter of 1967.
Web links
- Mount Verhage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Verhage on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1639 (English).