Ward Tower
| Ward Tower | ||
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| height | 2760 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Ward Tower is a striking mountain of 2,760 m altitude in the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 5 km east-northeast of Mount Aldrich .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Edward Michael d'Invilliers Ward (1918-2006), commander of the United States Navy's VX-6 squadron in the first two Deep Freeze operations (1955-1956 and 1956-1957) .
Web links
- Ward Tower in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ward Tower on geographic.org (English)