Mount Wallace
Mount Wallace | ||
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height | 1490 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Tapley Mountains in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 151 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Wallace is a 1,490 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Tapley Mountains, it rises on the south side of the mouth of the Roe Glacier in the Scott Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after J. Allen Wallace Jr., meteorologist on the Amundsen-Scott- South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.
Web links
- Mount Wallace in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wallace on geographic.org (English)