Mount Waesche

Mount Waesche
Topographic map of Mounts Sidley and Waesche
Elevation	3,292 m (10,801 ft)
Location
Location	Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Range	Executive Committee Range
Coordinates	77°10′S 126°54′W
Geology
Type	Shield volcano

Mount Waesche is a large and prominent mountain of volcanic origin, standing immediately SW of Mount Sidley and marking the southern end of the Executive Committee Range in Marie Byrd Land. The feature is snow covered except for rock exposures on the south and southwestern slopes. The volcano may have been active as late as the Holocene (last 10,000 years), and may be only presently dormant.

Discovered by the United States Antarctic Service expedition on a flight, December 15, 1940, and named for V. Admiral Russell R. Waesche, United States Coast Guard, member of the Antarctic Service Executive Committee.

See also

• List of volcanoes in Antarctica

Sources

• "Waesche". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1900-024. 
• LeMasurier, W. E.; Thomson, J. W. (eds.) (1990). Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. American Geophysical Union. p. 512 pp. ISBN 0-87590-172-7. 
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Waesche
• "Amar Andalkar's Ski Mountaineering and Climbing Site. Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond". 1997–2007. http://www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/RingOfFire.html. Retrieved 2005-01-14.