Mount West
| Mount West | ||
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| height | 556 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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 Topographic map with the Hammond Glacier (center) and Mount West towering east of it |
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Mount West is an isolated and 556 m high mountain in Marie-Byrd-Land in West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges it rises 15 km southeast of Mount Woodward from a wide and icy mountain ridge between the Hammond and Swope glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The American polar explorer Paul Siple named it in 1970 after James Edward West (1876-1948), the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America from 1911 to 1943, whose representative Siple was on the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930).
Web links
- Mount West in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount West on geographic.org (English)