Mount Deardorff
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Mount Deardorff is a prominent peak
, 2,380 m, surmounting the massive ridge dividing the heads of Moffett and Steagall Glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains
. First mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
(US-ACAN) for J. Evan Deardorff who made cosmic ray studies at McMurdo Station
in 1964.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
, 2,380 m, surmounting the massive ridge dividing the heads of Moffett and Steagall Glaciers in the Queen Maud Mountains
Queen Maud Mountains
The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...
. First mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...
(US-ACAN) for J. Evan Deardorff who made cosmic ray studies at McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station
McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...
in 1964.