Mount Walker
| Mount Walker | ||
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| height | 2350 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Forbidden plateau | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 48 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 0 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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Mount Walker is a 2350 m high, snow-capped mountain in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km south of the head end of the Blanchard Glacier in the northeastern part of the Forbidden Plateau .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped him in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him Richard Walker (* 1904) in 1957, first officer on board the Discovery II in the Discovery Investigations between 1933 and 1937.
Web links
- Mount Walker in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Walker on geographic.org (English)