Hess Mesa
| Hess Mesa | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Hess Mesa is a small table mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it towers over the watershed between the Koenig Valley and Mudrey Cirque .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Laurent Oswald Hess (1912–1974), captain of the tanker USNS Maumee in Operation Deep Freeze in 1970 and 1971.
Web links
- Hess Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hess Mesa on geographic.org (English)