What is Mount Takahe?
[[File:MountTakahe.jpg|thumb|Mount Takahe, as seen by airplane in 1956]] '''Mount Takahe''' is a [[shield volcano]] in [[Antarctica]]. It's height is {{convert|3460|m|ft}} above [[sea level]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Antarctica Ultra-Prominent Summits |url=http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/antarctica.html |website=www.peaklist.org |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref> The volcano is mostly covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]]. People first visited the mountain in 1957.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=LeMasurier |first1=Wesley |last2=Choi |first2=Sung Hi |last3=Mukasa |first3=Sam |last4=Rogers |first4=Nick |title=Dual origins for pantellerites, and other puzzles, at Mount Takahe volcano, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica |journal=Lithos |date=1 January 2018 |volume=296-299 |pages=142–162 |doi=10.1016/j.lithos.2017.10.014|bibcode=2018Litho.296..142L }}</ref> Due to its remote location, it has not been visited often. It has never been climbed, and no one has even tried to climb it.<ref>{{cite peakbagger |pid=12129 |name=Mount Takahe, Antarctica |accessdate=8 April 2021}}</ref> It is named after the [[takahē]], a [[bird]] which lives in [[New Zealand]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Volcanoes]] [[Category:Mountains of Antarctica]] {{geo-stub}}