Mount Wyman

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Mount Wyman
height 2667  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 83 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 158 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 158 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Wyman (Antarctica)
Mount Wyman
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Mount Wyman is a distinctive and 2667  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Elizabeth Range, it looms at the end of a rocky ridge that extends west from the Sandford Cliffs .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Carl O. Wyman, an ionospheric researcher at Little America V in 1957.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1731 (English)