Henderson pyramid

Henderson pyramid
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height	2450 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E

The Henderson Pyramid is a 2450 m high, striking and mainly icy mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the west side of the Royal Society Range, it rises 6 km south-southwest of Ugolini Peak .

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1961. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1995 after the USGS cartographer Thomas E. Henderson, who between 1979 and In 1980 he was involved in surveys of the Ellsworth Mountains , between 1981 and 1982 headed a team for surveying the northern Victoria Land and in the Antarctic winter of 1982 belonged to a team for satellite geodesy at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .

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