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-[[File:Horlick Mountains.jpg|300px|left]]
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-The '''[[Climate of Antarctica]]''' is the coldest on the Earth.
+'''[[Mount Moulton]]''' is a broad, [[ice]]-covered shield volcano standing 16 km (10 mi) E of [[Mount Berlin]] in the [[Flood Range]] of [[Westarctica]].
-[[Antarctica]]'s lowest air temperature record was set on 21 July 1983, with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at Vostok Station in East Antarctica. Satellite measurements have identified even lower ground temperatures, down to −93.2 °C (−135.8 °F) at the cloud free East Antarctic Plateau on 10 August 2010. It is also extremely dry (technically a desert), averaging a mere 166 mm (6.5 in) of precipitation per year. On most parts of the continent the snow rarely melts and is eventually compressed to become the [[glacier]] ice that makes up the [[ice sheet]]. Weather fronts rarely penetrate far into the continent, because of the [[katabatic wind|katabatic winds]]. Most of Antarctica has an ice cap climate (Köppen EF) with very cold, generally extremely dry weather.
+Mount Moulton was discovered on aerial flights by the United States [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] Service in 1940, and named for Richard S. Moulton, chief dog driver at West Base and a member of the survey party which sledged to the western end of the Flood Range in December 1940.
-The lowest reliably measured temperature of a continuously occupied station on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) was on 21 July 1983 at Vostok Station.
+Lengthy ice cores have recently been extracted from Moulton, yielding an age of about a half million years by dating the various tephra layers embedded within the ice. These cores are being used to reconstruct a climatic record stretching back for 480,000 years which can be compared to that from ice cores in the main [[East Antarctic Ice Sheet]].
-'''([[Climate of Antarctica|Full Article...]])'''
+In 2005, Jon-Lawrence Langer, a long-time supporter of Westarctica and member of the [[Grand Ducal Cabinet]], was granted the combined duchies of Mount Moulton and [[Mount Berlin]].  His new title, [[Duke of Moulton-Berlin]], gave him control over the entire mountain range.
+'''([[Mount Moulton|Full Article...]])'''