Mount Wanous
| Mount Wanous | ||
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| height | 1660 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 51 ′ 58 ″ S , 62 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wanous is a striking, snow-free , cone-shaped and 1660 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 7 km east of Pierce Peak on the northeast edge of the Mackin Table .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American geophysicist Richard E. Wanous (* 1939), who of Worked in the Pensacola Mountains from 1965 to 1966.
Web links
- Mount Wanous in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wanous on geographic.org (English)