Scudder Mountain
| Scudder Mountain | ||
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| height | 2280 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 86 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 149 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Scudder Mountain is a 2,280 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises between the Organ Pipe Peaks and Mount McKercher on the eastern flank of the Scott Glacier .
The geological team around 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 . His name appears for the first time in Paul Siple's botanical report on this expedition. The further naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Scudder Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scudder Mountain on geographic.org (English)