Mount Behling

Mount Behling (85°40′S 161°4′W / 85.667°S 161.067°W / -85.667; -161.067Coordinates: 85°40′S 161°4′W / 85.667°S 161.067°W / -85.667; -161.067) is an ice-covered, flat-topped mountain, 2,190 m, standing between the Steagall and Whitney Glaciers and 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Mount Ellsworth in the Queen Maud Mountains. First mapped from ground surveys and air photos by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Robert E. Behling, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) glaciologist on the South Pole—Queen Maud Land Traverse II, summer 1965-66.

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