Cerro Schlatter
| Cerro Schlatter | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Schlatter ( Spanish , in Argentina Cerro Siempre Nevado for constantly snow-covered hill ) is a hill in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the Trinity Peninsula, it rises 6 km west of Mount Taylor and about 5 km north of Duse Bay .
Chilean scientists named it after the Chilean biologist Roberto Pablo Schlatter Vollmann (* 1944) who, as part of the United States Antarctic Program , carried out studies on the mass balance of glacier ice in the Antarctic dry valleys between 1969 and 1971 in two Antarctic summer campaigns on the ringing program for Adelie penguins and Antarctic kuas was involved.
Web links
- Schlatter, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)