Treves Butte
| Treves Butte | ||
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| height | 2100 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ohio Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 43 '0 " S , 114 ° 20' 0" W | |
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The Treves Butte is a striking, partly icy and 2100 m high witness mountain in the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . In the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains looms immediately northwest of Discovery Ridge .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after the geologist Samuel B. Treves of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln , who was active in several campaigns in Antarctica , including investigations in the Ohio Range and others between 1960 and 1961 and 1961 to 1962 Sections of the Horlick Mountains.
Web links
- Treves Butte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Treves Butte on geographic.org (English)