Mount Wyatt Earp
| Mount Wyatt Earp | ||
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| height | 2370 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 86 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Wyatt Earp is a 2370 m high and mainly snow-covered mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 5 km west-northwest of Mount Ulmer in the northern part of the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth discovered him on his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the ship Wyatt Earp , which Ellsworth used on four expeditions to Antarctica between 1933 and 1939.
Web links
- Mount Wyatt Earp in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wyatt Earp on geographic.org (English)