Mount Wyatt
| Mount Wyatt | ||
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| height | 2930 m | |
| location | Marie-Byrd-Land , West Antarctica (politically: Ross Dependency ) | |
| Mountains | Rawson Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wyatt is a 2930 m (according to New Zealand information 2743 m ) high and striking mountain with flattened peaks in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Rawson Mountains of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 5 km west of Mount Verlautz .
The team around the geologist Quin Blackburn (1900-1981) discovered the mountain in December 1934 during the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Byrd named him after the American actress Jane Wyatt (1910-2006), a friend of the expedition member Richard Spofford Russell Jr. (1908-1984).
Web links
- Mount Wyatt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wyatt on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1730 (English).