Howard Heights
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ S , 151 ° 40 ′ W | |
The Howard Heights are a snow-covered promontory up to 515 m high on the Saunders coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . On the north side of the Edward VII Peninsula, they loom between the Stewart and Gerry glaciers .
The area was explored from the air during the first (1928–1930) and second Antarctic expeditions (1933–1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountains on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 at Byrd's suggestion after the American newspaper publisher Roy Wilson Howard (1883–1964 ), a sponsor of Byrd's second Antarctic expedition.
Web links
- Howard Heights in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Howard Heights on geographic.org (English)