Mount Falla Explained

Elevation M:4528
Location:Antarctica
Range:Queen Alexandra Range
Coordinates:-84.3667°N 219°W
Map:Antarctica

Mount Falla -84.3667°N 219°W is a prominent conical mountain, high, standing 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:

Hanson Spur

-84.3667°N 164.7333°W. A flat-topped ridge, long, trending northwest from Mount Falla. Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1995 after Richard E. Hanson, geologist, Ohio State University, who conducted field research in this area, 1990-91.

Lamping Peak

-84.2333°N 213°W. A rock peak standing between Prebble and Wyckoff Glaciers, on the western slopes of the Queen Alexandra Range. Named by US-ACAN for John T. Lamping, USARP geomagnetist at South Pole Station, 1961.

Fremouw Peak

See main article: Fremouw Peak. -84.2833°N 184°W. A prominent peak, high, forming the south side of the mouth of Prebble Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Edward J. Fremouw, USARP aurora scientist at South Pole Station, 1959.

Golden Cap

-84.3333°N 190°W. The highest peak, high, on the ridge running northwest from Mount Falla, about NaNAlberts