Supporting Party Mountain
| Supporting Party Mountain | ||
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| height | 560 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Harold Byrd Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 147 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | December 1929 by Laurence McKinley Gould and others | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Supporting Party Mountain is a 560 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land . It rises 3 miles east of Mount Fridovich in the Harold Byrd Mountains .
He was discovered in December 1929 by the team around the geologist Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) during the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The namesake was the support team ( English supporting party ), which helped the team around Gould logistically.
Web links
- Supporting Party Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Supporting Party Mountain on geographic.org (English)