Kottmeier Mesa
| Kottmeier Mesa | ||
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| height | 2120 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Table Mountain | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Kottmeier Mesa is a 2120 m high table mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it rises 4.5 km northwest of Mount JJ Thomson . It is almost completely covered with ice, 2.5 km long and 800 m wide. This is where the head ends of the David Valley , the Bartley and the Matterhorn glaciers and the northern flank of the Rhone glacier meet. The glaciers mentioned are fed by the ice masses of Table Mountain.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after Steven T. Kottmeier, who, among other things, between 1981 and 1987 as part of the United States Antarctic Program, the microbial communities in the sea ice of McMurdo Sound and that of krill on the edge zones of the Bellingshausen Sea , the Scotia Sea and the Weddell Sea was investigated.
Web links
- Kottmeier Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kottmeier Mesa on geographic.org (English)