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"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| elevation_m | 4528 |
| location | Antarctica |
| range | Queen Alexandra Range |
| coordinates | |
| map | Antarctica |
| :: |
| 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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