Strider skirt
Strider skirt | ||
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Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Strider Rock (bottom left) |
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location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Rockefeller Mountains | |
Coordinates | 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Strider Rock is a rock formation in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula , it rises 1.5 km northwest of Mount Nilsen in the Rockefeller Mountains .
The rock was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1971 after John Philip Strider (1930-2015), pilot of an R4D equipped with skids , with which he and Rear Admiral George J. Dufek (1903-1977) and other crew members on October 31, 1956 the first Successful landing of an aircraft at the geographic South Pole .
Web links
- Strider Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Strider Rock on geographic.org (English)