Mount Wallace

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Wallace
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 Coordinates: 85 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  S , 151 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Wallace (Antarctica)
Mount Wallace

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