Mount Whillans
| Mount Whillans | ||
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| height | 870 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Whillans is a 870 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains it rises 6 km southwest of Mount Stroschein in the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the Canadian glaciologist Ian Morley Whillans (1944-2001), who lived in the Antarctic winter 1967 worked on the Palmer station .
Web links
- Mount Whillans in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Whillans on geographic.org (English)