Mount Vaughan

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The Mount Vaughan is a 3140 m high mountain in Antarctica at the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. He is one of the peaks of the Hatt - Mountains, which separate the Scott - Amundsen Glacier from Glacier, and thus belongs to the Queen Maud Mountains. The Mount Vaughan feeds the Scott Glacier in the east with the Vaughan Glacier, which begins at the edge of the mountain. A smaller western glacier goes after a few kilometers to the Amundsen Glacier.

Origin of the name

The mountain was by Norman Vaughan, senior dogs leader of the first Byrd Expedition (1928-1930), the first American Antarctic expedition that reached the central high plateau of Antarctica, named. Vaughan was for the first time on 16 December 1994, three days after his 89th birthday, at the summit of the mountain that bears his name.