Mount Walton
| Mount Walton | ||
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| height | 2460 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Outback Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Walton is a 2,460 m high, pointed, and non-iced mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises halfway between the Oona Cliff and Mount Chadwick in the group of outback nunatakkers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Fred W. Walton, geomagnetologist and seismologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Year 1968.
Web links
- Mount Walton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Walton on geographic.org (English)