Mount Walcott
| Mount Walcott | ||
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| height | 2155 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thiel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 87 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Walcott is a 2155 m high, mostly ice-free mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It rises about 4 km east of Mount Powell in the eastern section of the Thiel Mountains .
Peter Bermel and Arthur B. Ford , who jointly led an expedition of the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains, named him after the American paleontologist Charles Walcott (1850-1927), third director of the survey from 1894 to 1907.
Web links
- Mount Walcott in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Walcott on geographic.org (English)