Mount Waterman (Antarctica)
| Mount Waterman | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 3880 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hughes Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
|
||
Mount Waterman is a 3880 m and massive mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5 km northeast of Mount Wexler in the Hughes Range of the Queen Maud Mountains .
The American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him during a reconnaissance flight on November 18, 1929 as part of his first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930). The area was explored by the geophysicist Albert P. Crary (1911-1987) from 1957 to 1958, who named the mountain after the physicist Alan T. Waterman (1892-1967), the director of the National Science Foundation . The foundation had supported the Antarctic US research program for the International Geophysical Year 1957–1958 .
Web links
- Mount Waterman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Waterman on geographic.org (English)