Mount Falla

Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica


title: "Mount Falla" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["mountains-of-the-ross-dependency", "four-thousanders-of-antarctica", "paleontological-sites-of-antarctica", "shackleton-coast"] description: "Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Falla" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Mountain in Ross Dependency, Antarctica ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox mountain"]

FieldValue
elevation_m4528
locationAntarctica
rangeQueen Alexandra Range
coordinates
mapAntarctica
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| name = | photo = | photo_caption = | elevation_m = 4528 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = | prominence_ref = | parent_peak = | listing = | location = Antarctica| | range = Queen Alexandra Range | coordinates = | map = Antarctica Mount Falla is a prominent conical mountain, 3,825 m high, standing 3.5 nmi northeast of Mount Stonehouse, between Berwick and Prebble Glaciers.

Exploration and name

Mount Falla was sighted in January 1958 by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) (1956–58), and named for R.A. Falla, a member of the Ross Sea Committee.

Location

Mount Falla is in the southwest of the Queen Alexandra Range, to the west of Mount Kirkpatrick and north of the Marshall Mountains. Nearby features include Lamping Peak to the north of Prebble Glacier, Fremouw Peak and Golden Cap to the south of Prebble Glacier, and Gordon Valley, Mount Stonehouse and Buttress Peak to the southwest.

Features

Nearby features include: ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/C84195s1_Ant.Map_Buckley_Island.jpg" caption="Mount Falla towards the northeast"] ::

Hanson Spur

Lamping Peak

Fremouw Peak

Main article: Fremouw Peak

Golden Cap

Gordon Valley

Main article: Gordon Valley

Mount Stonehouse

Buttress Peak

References

Sources

  • {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
  • {{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C84195s1_Ant.Map_Buckley_Island.jpg |accessdate=2024-03-17 |title=Buckley Island |publisher=USGS: United States Geological Survey |ref= }}
  • {{cite gnis2 |type=antarid |id=17314 |name=Hanson Spur}}

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