Name details

Mount Pulitzer

Pulitzer, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Pulitzer  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114170

Feature type: Mountain (2a)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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Narrative

A mountain, rising sharply to about 1371m, distinguished by sharp, serrated ridges, standing about 15 miles west of Robert Scott Glacier, about 25 miles south of its terminus at the Ross Ice Shelf in the Queen Maud Range. Discovered in December 1934 by the Geological Party, led by Blackburn, of the Byrd AE, 1933-35. Named by Byrd for Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St Louis Post-Dispatch, and a patron of the first two Byrd expeditions.

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Location

Latitude:
85° 49' 00.0" S
-85.81667°
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Longitude:
154° 16' 00.0" W
-154.26667°
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Altitude:
1371 m
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Map

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Remote sensing:
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