Webster Knob
| Webster Knob | ||
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| height | 2500 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Webster Knob (English for Websterknubbel ) is a striking and 2500 m high mountain of the Queen Maud Mountains in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . At the head of the Strøm Glacier, it rises from a rock spur that drops off the northeast shoulder of Mount Fridtjof Nansen .
The geological team around Laurence McKinley Gould (1896-1995) on the first Antarctic expedition (1928-1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him in November 1929. Byrd named the mountain after May Webster (1873-1938), a sponsor the research trip.
Web links
- Webster Knob in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Webster Knob on geographic.org (English)