La Count Mountain
| La Count Mountain | ||
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| height | 1875 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Battleship , Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The La Count Mountain is a 1,875 m high and mostly ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It forms the northern part of the Battleship massif between the Rotunda , Blankenship and Ferrar glaciers .
The American geologist Warren Hamilton of the United States Geological Survey examined the mountain between 1958 and 1959. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1992 after Ronald R. La Count (1929-2008), manager of the section for polar operations in the National Polar Program Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.
Web links
- La Count Mountain in Names Geographic Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- La Count Mountain on geographic.org (English)