Mount Rees (Marie Byrd Land)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Mount Rees (76°40′S 118°10′W / 76.667°S 118.167°W) is a 2,709 metres (8,888 ft) mountain located 7 nautical miles (13 km) northwest of Mount Steere in the northern end of Crary Mountains, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from ground surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–66, and was named for Manfred H. Rees, aurora scientist at Byrd Station during the 1965–66 season.
It is a shield volcano formed during the late Miocene to early Pliocene.[1] The 1967-1968 Marie Byrd Land Survey found lichen on Mount Rees, but no other traces of life.[2]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/CraryMtnsMap.jpg/250px-CraryMtnsMap.jpg)
References
- ^ Wilch, Thomas I; McIntosh, William C; Panter, Kurt S; Dunbar, Nelia W (1993). "Preliminary report on field investigations and argon-40/argon-39 geochronology of the Crary Mountains volcanoes, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica" (PDF). Antarctic Journal of the United States. 28 (5): 7–9.
- ^ Koob, Derry D. "Biological survey of Marie Byrd Land" (PDF). Antarctic Journal of the United States. 3 (4): 91–92.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Rees". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
Categories:
- Pages using gadget WikiMiniAtlas
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System
- Mountains of Marie Byrd Land
- Volcanoes of Marie Byrd Land
- Miocene shield volcanoes
- Pliocene shield volcanoes
- Crary Mountains
- Shield volcanoes of Antarctica
- All stub articles
- Marie Byrd Land geography stubs