Mount Cartwright () is a sharp
peak, high, surmounting a north–south trending ridge north-northwest of
Mount Waterman in the
Hughes Range. It was discovered and photographed by the
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
on Flight C of February 29 – March 1, 1940, and surveyed by
A.P. Crary
Albert Paddock Crary (July 25, 1911 – October 29, 1987), was a pioneer polar geophysics, geophysicist and glaciology, glaciologist. He was the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles, having made it to the North Pole on M ...
in 1957–58. It was named by Crary for
Gordon Cartwright, first of the U.S. exchange
International Geophysical Year
The International Geophysical Year (IGY; french: Année géophysique internationale) was an international scientific project that lasted from 1 July 1957 to 31 December 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific i ...
scientists, who wintered at the Soviet
Mirny Station
The Mirny Station (russian: Мирный, literally ''Peaceful'') is a Russian (formerly Soviet) first Antarctic science station located in Queen Mary Land, Antarctica, on the Antarctic coast of the Davis Sea.
The station is managed by the A ...
, 1957.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Dufek Coast
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