Mount Falconer
Mountain in Antarctica
title: "Mount Falconer" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-victoria-land", "mcmurdo-dry-valleys"] description: "Mountain in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/mountains-of-victoria-land" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Falconer" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Mountain in Antarctica ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox mountain"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| country | Antarctica |
| region_type | Region |
| region | Victoria Land |
| length_km | |
| width_km | |
| map | Antarctica |
| range_coordinates | |
| geology | |
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| name= | photo= | photo_caption= | country=Antarctica | country_type=Continent | region_type =Region | region=Victoria Land | parent= | border= | coordinates = | length_km= | length_note = | width_km= | width_note = | highest= | elevation_m= | elevation_note= | map = Antarctica | map_alt = | map_caption = | map_size = | label = | label_position = | range_coordinates = | geology= | period=| orogeny= Mount Falconer () is a mountain, 810 m high, surmounting Lake Fryxell on the north wall of Taylor Valley, between Mount McLennan and Commonwealth Glacier in Antarctica. It was named by the Western Journey Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13.
Location
Mount Falconer is in the southeast of the Asgard Range. The Commonwealth Glacier forms to its north and flows east and then south into the Taylor Valley. Lake Fryxell in the Taylor Valley is to the south of the mountain, and Canada Glacier flows southeast into Taylor Valley to the west of Mount Falconer. Mount McLennan is to the northwest. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/C77190s1_Ant.Map_Ross_Island.jpg" caption="East end of Asgard Range south of center"] ::
Features
Named features include, from west to east:
Perk Summit
Mount Keohane
Huey Gully
Scholars Peak
Tarn Valley
Princeton Tarn
Penn Tarn
Harvard Tarn
Yale Tarn
Ghent Ridge
Henderson Hill
References
Sources
- {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2024-01-30 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17376 |name=Ghent Ridge}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17383 |name=Harvard Tarn}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17386 |name=Henderson Hill}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17390 |name=Huey Gully}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17395 |name=Mount Keohane}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17409 |name=Penn Tarn}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17410 |name=Perk Summit}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17412 |name=Princeton Tarn}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17670 |name=Scholars Peak}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17418 |name=Tarn Valley}}
- {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17383 |name=Yale Tarn}}
- {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C77190s1_Ant.Map_Ross_Island.jpg |accessdate=2024-02-13 |title=Ross Island |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}
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