Mount Rutford

Mount Rutford
Mount Rutford
Elevation 4,477 m (14,688 ft) [1]
Location
Location Antarctica
Range Sentinel Range
Coordinates 78°36′S 85°18′W / 78.6°S 85.3°W / -78.6; -85.3Coordinates: 78°36′S 85°18′W / 78.6°S 85.3°W / -78.6; -85.3
Climbing
First ascent Jed Brown (US) December 2006
Location of Craddock Massif in Western Antarctica.
Sentinel Range map.

Mount Rutford is a sharp peak that rises to 4,477 metres (14,688 ft) and marks the highest point on Craddock Massif in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. The peak stands just north of Bugueño Pinnacle and 2.1 mi north of Mount Craddock, with which this naming is associated. Prior to 2006 the peak had no name, but was visually identified by Camilo Rada and Damien Gildea as being higher than Mt Craddock, during their time on the summits of both Vinson (2004) and Craddock (2005). Thus they returned in 2006 and, as part of a larger GPS program, measured the height of this unnamed peak.

As a result of the new GPS data and a new 1:100,000 topographical map being produced by the Omega Foundation, the peak was then named in 2006 by US-ACAN after Robert H. Rutford, member of J. Campbell Craddock’s University of Minnesota geological expedition to Ellsworth Mountains, 1962–63; leader, University of Minnesota expedition to Ellsworth Mountains, 1963–64; Director, Division of Polar Programs, NSF, 1975–77; President of SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research).[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b USGS GNIS

References

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