Mount Walshe
| Mount Walshe | ||
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| height | 2050 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hays Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 152 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Walshe is a 2050 m high mountain of bare rock in the Queen Maud Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Hays Mountains, it rises on the northern flank of the confluence of the Bartlett Glacier and the Scott Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using 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 Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Walshe Jr. (1925–1997), Officer on board the USS Arneb in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1957 and 1959 and a member of the command post of the support units of the US Navy in Antarctica from 1966 to 1967.
Web links
- Mount Walshe in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Walshe on geographic.org (English)