Mount Avers - Revision history

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	==Discovery and name==		==Discovery and name==
	Mount Avers was discovered in December 1929 by the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] and named in honor of Henry G. Avers, who served as the chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that [[Richard E. Byrd]] had reached the North Pole by airplane in 1926 and the [[South Pole]] in 1929.		Mount Avers was discovered in December 1929 by the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] and named in honor of Henry G. Avers, who served as the chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that [[Richard E. Byrd]] had reached the North Pole by airplane in 1926 and the [[South Pole]] in 1929.

			==Peerage title==
			On 20 April 2020, Andrew Lauterbach, the Baronet of Monkmore, was granted the additional [[Peerage of Westarctica\|peerage title]] Baron of Avers in recognition of his support of Westarctica.

	[[Category: Mountains]]		[[Category: Mountains]]

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			[[File:Mt-Avers copy.jpg\|350px\|thumb\|Map showing location of Mount Averts in the Fosdick Mountains of Antarctica.]]
	'''Mount Avers''' (76°29′S 145°21′W) is a mountain 2 miles (3 km) north of Mount Ferranto in the [[Fosdick Mountains]], in the [[Ford Ranges]] of [[Westarctica]].		'''Mount Avers''' (76°29′S 145°21′W) is a mountain 2 miles (3 km) north of Mount Ferranto in the [[Fosdick Mountains]], in the [[Ford Ranges]] of [[Westarctica]].

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'''Mount Avers''' (76°29′S 145°21′W) is a mountain 2 miles (3 km) north of Mount Ferranto in the [[Fosdick Mountains]], in the [[Ford Ranges]] of [[Westarctica]].

==Discovery and name==
Mount Avers was discovered in December 1929 by the [[Byrd Antarctic Expedition]] and named in honor of Henry G. Avers, who served as the chief mathematician of the Division of Geodesy, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He was a member of the National Geographic Society Commission of Experts which determined that [[Richard E. Byrd]] had reached the North Pole by airplane in 1926 and the [[South Pole]] in 1929.

[[Category: Mountains]]