Whitney Peak
| Whitney Peak | ||
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| height | 3003 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Executive Committee Range | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 126 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Whitney Peak is a 3,003 m high and prominent mountain peaks in Marie Byrd Land . It rises 5 km northwest of Mount Hampton , from which it is separated by an icy saddle, as the northernmost elevation of the Executive Committee Range .
Like all other mountains in the Executive Committee Range, Whitney Peak is of volcanic origin. With an age of 13.7–13.2 million years, it is the oldest link in this mountain range; volcanic activity has since shifted southward at a rate of approximately 9.6 km per million year.
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of Trimetrogon - aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1958 and 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1962 after Herbert Walter Whitney (1901–1985), commander of the mobile construction battalion of the United States Navy, which was responsible for establishing observation stations as part of the International Geophysical Year . These stops included Little America V in Kainan Bay on the Ross Ice Shelf , where Whitney wintered in 1956.
Web links
- Whitney Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whitney Peak on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amanda C. Lough et al .: Seismic detection of an active subglacial magmatic complex in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica . In: Nature Geoscience . tape 6 , November 17, 2013, p. 1031–1035 , doi : 10.1038 / ngeo1992 (English, freely available online from Washington University in St. Louis [PDF; 952 kB ]).