Mount Andrus

Mount Andrus
Aerial view of the Ames Range. Mount Andrus is the first mount from the right, excluding Mount Berlin, that can be seen isolated far away
Highest point
Elevation	2,978 m (9,770 ft)
Coordinates	75°48′0″S 132°18′0″W
Geography
Mount Andrus Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
Parent range	Ames Range
Geology
Rock age	Unknown
Mountain type	Shield volcano
Volcanic field	Marie Byrd Land Volcanic Province
Last eruption	Unknown

Mount Andrus is a shield volcano 3.2 km (2 mi) SE of Mount Boennighausen in the SE extremity of Ames Range, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapped by USGS from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1964–68. Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Carl H. Andrus, US Navy, medical officer and Officer-in-Charge of Byrd Station in 1964.

Andrus has a 4.5 km-wide caldera at its summit. The westward face of the mountain is drained by the Coleman Glacier, with significant crevassing present.

In an interesting side note, Mt. Andrus was reportedly climbed by one Michael J. Andrus (no relation to Carl H. Andrus) in August 2006 for the purpose of downhill skiing, which would make him the first Andrus to visit the mountain (though perhaps not the last). Carl H. Andrus is himself an avid mountain climber, having summited all 46 of the Adirondack high peaks and having, in his youth, climbed the Matterhorn.

Topographic map of the Ames Range (1:250,000 scale) from USGS Mount Kosciusko

See also

• List of volcanoes in Antarctica

References

• "Andrus". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
• 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. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20051030114935/http://usarc.usgs.gov/antarctic_atlas/
• http://www.skimountaineer.com/