Mount Amherst
The Rawson Mountains lie within the Queen Maud Mountains to the southeast of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. They are a crescent-shaped range of tabular, ice-covered mountains including Fuller Dome, Mount Wyatt and Mount Verlautz, standing southeast of Nilsen Plateau and extending southeast for 18 nautical miles to the west side of Scott Glacier.- Peak rising to 2,400 metres (7,874 feet)
- …is named after Amherst College
- Description: mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
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Latitude
-86.53471° or 86° 32′ 5″ south
Longitude
-153.07146° or 153° 4′ 17″ west
Open location code
2358FW8H+4C
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Mount Amherst” goes by many names.
AmherstCebuano
Amherst (bukid)Cebuano
Mount AmherstCebuano
阿默斯特山Chinese
AmherstDutch
Mount AmherstDutch
Monte AmherstItalian
Mount AmherstLadin
Mount AmherstLow German
Mount AmherstNorwegian Bokmål
Mount AmherstNorwegian Nynorsk
Amherst (berg)Swedish
Mount AmherstSwedish
Monte AmherstVenetian
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