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
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tongue Peak.
Mount Amherst
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- Location: 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.
- Cebuano: “Amherst (bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Amherst”
- Cebuano: “Mount Amherst”
- Chinese: “阿默斯特山”
- Dutch: “Amherst”
- Dutch: “Mount Amherst”
- German: “Mount Amherst”
- Italian: “Monte Amherst”
- Ladin: “Mount Amherst”
- Low German: “Mount Amherst”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Amherst”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Amherst”
- Swedish: “Amherst (berg)”
- Swedish: “Mount Amherst”
- Venetian: “Monte Amherst”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include McNally Peak and Farley, Mount.
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