Mount Viets
| Mount Viets | ||
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| height | 3600 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Viets is a 3600 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises in a pyramid shape 3 km north of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
He was discovered by the so-called Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party , a team mainly to explore the Marie Byrd Land between 1957 and 1958. This named the mountain after the American geophysicist Ronald Lamont Viets (1918-1995), who in 1957 the Little America V station was operating.
Web links
- Mount Viets in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Viets on geographic.org (English)