What is Antarcticas largest highest mountain?
Vinson Massif is Antarctica’s highest mountain. It was discovered on 1957, after being sighted by US Navy aircraft. It is 4897 meters (16,067 feet) in height. It is also 13 kilometre (8 miles) wide. It’s located 78°35’S, 85°25’W, part of the Sentinel Range and 1200 kilometre (746 miles) from the South Pole.
The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM), the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges. The Transantarctic Mountains compose a mountain range in Antarctica which extend, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land. These mountains serve as the division between East Antarctica and West Antarctica. They include a number of separately named mountain groups, which are often again subdivided into smaller ranges. The mountain range stretches between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea the entire length of Antarctica, thence the name. With a total length of about 3,500 km, the Transantarctic Mountains are one of the longer mountain ranges on Earth. The 100–300 km wide range forms the boundary between East Antarctica and West Antarctica. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet bounds the TAM along their entire length on the Eastern Hemisphere side, while the Western
