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Mount Anderson (Antarctica)

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Location
  
Antarctica

Prominence
  
1,504 m

Elevation
  
4,144 m

Parent range
  
Sentinel Range

Mount Anderson (Antarctica)

First ascent
  
January 7th 2007 - Jed Brown (US) & Damien Gildea (AUS)

Mountain range
  
Ellsworth Mountains, Sentinel Range

Similar
  
Mount Rutford, Mount Tyree, Mount Shinn, Vinson Massif

Mount Anderson is a high mountain in the northern part of the Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Probuda Ridge is trending northeast of the peak, and Embree Glacier and Ellen Glacier's tributary Fonfon Glacier drain its northeastern and eastern slopes respectively. It is part of the same massif as Mount Bentley and Mount Sisu.

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Map of Mount Anderson, Antarctica

The mountain was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party, 1957–58, under C.R. Bentley, and named for Vernon H. Anderson, glaciologist at Byrd Station, 1957, a member of the party.

Maps

  • Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
  • References

    Mount Anderson (Antarctica) Wikipedia