Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg
| Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg | ||
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| height | 3505 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quarles Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg is a 3505 m high and ice-covered mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises 3 km southwest of Mount Ruth Gade between the Cooper and Bowman glaciers in the Quarles Range .
The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen discovered him in December 1911 as part of his South Pole expedition (1910–1912). He named it after Alice Thekla Louise Wedel-Jarlsberg (born von Wagner, 1861–1913), wife of the Norwegian diplomat Fritz Wedel-Jarlsberg .
Web links
- Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wedel-Jarlsberg on geographic.org (English)