Mount Weaver
| Mount Weaver | ||
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| height | 2780 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | December 1934, Quin Blackburn and others | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Weaver is a 2780 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises around 3 km west of Mount Wilbur in the area where the Scott Glacier was formed.
It was discovered and first climbed in December 1934 by the geological team around Quin Blackburn (1900–1981) of the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This named him after Charles Edwin Weaver (1880-1958), paleontologist at the University of Washington .
Web links
- Mount Weaver in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Weaver on geographic.org (English)