
Mount Sharp () is a
mountain
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over 3,000 m, standing 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of
Mount Barden in the north part of the
Sentinel Range in
Western Antarctica. It surmounts
Zhenda Glacier to the north and
Sabazios Glacier to the east.
The mountain was mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party of 1957–58, under
Charles R. Bentley, which named the mountain for Professor
Robert P. Sharp, a member of the Technical Panel on
Glaciology
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, part of the U.S. National Committee for the
International Geophysical Year
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(IGY).
References
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Mountains of Ellsworth Land
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