Mount Sharp
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Mount Sharp is a mountain
over 3,000 m, standing 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Mount Barden
in the north part of the Sentinel Range
. Mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957–58, who named the mountain for Professor Robert P. Sharp, member of the Technical Panel on Glaciology, U.S. National Committee for the IGY.
Mountain
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over 3,000 m, standing 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Mount Barden
Mount Barden
Mount Barden is a mountain, 2,910 m, standing 2.5 nautical miles northwest of Mount Sharp in the north portion of the Sentinel Range. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Virgil W. Barden, an ionospheric physicist and member of the 1957 wintering party at Byrd Station....
in the north part of the Sentinel Range
Sentinel Range
The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...
. Mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party, 1957–58, who named the mountain for Professor Robert P. Sharp, member of the Technical Panel on Glaciology, U.S. National Committee for the IGY.