Mount Weems
| Mount Weems | ||
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| height | 2210 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Weems is a striking, 2210 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises eight miles north of Mount Ulmer near the northern end of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1961 after the Norwegian-American meteorologist Philip Van Horn Weems (1889-1979), inventor and developer of navigation instruments , who advised Ellsworth prior to his flight.
Web links
- Mount Weems in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Weems on geographic.org (English)