Toney Mountain

Toney Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name=Toney Mountain
Photo=MountToney.jpg
Caption=Aerial view of Toney Mountain from the east.
Elevation=3,595 metres (11,795 feet)
Location=Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Prominence = convert|1946|m|ft|0
Coordinates = coord|75|48|S|115|48|W|type:mountain|display=title,inline
Topographic

Listing = Ultra
Type=Shield volcano
Age=Holocene?
Last eruption=Unknown
First ascent=
Easiest route=

Toney Mountain is an elongated snow-covered shield volcano, 60 km (38 mi) long and rising to 3,595 m in Richmond Peak, located 56 km (35 mi) SW of Kohler Range in Marie Byrd Land. A 3 km-wide summit caldera tops the volcano, and Holocene eruptions may have had occurred at Toney Mountain.

Toney Mountain was probably among those viewed from a distance by Admiral Byrd and others of the USAS in plane flights from the ship "Bear" in February 1940. It was mapped in December 1957 by the oversnow traverse party from Byrd Station to the Sentinel Range, 1957-58, led by C.R. Bentley who proposed the name. Named after George R. Toney, scientific leader at Byrd Station in 1957, a participant in several Antarctic and Arctic operations, serving in both field and administrative capacities.

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