Mackin Table
| Mackin Table | ||
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| height | 2135 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 55 '11 " S , 64 ° 12' 54" W | |
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The Mackin Table is an ice-covered, wedge-shaped and 2,135 m high table mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . With a length of around 32 km, it rises north of the Patuxent Ice Stream as the highest point in the Patuxent Range in the Pensacola Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. At the suggestion of the United States Antarctic Program , it was named after Joseph Hoover Mackin (1905–1968) of the University of Washington , the trained numerous geologists who examined the Pensacola Mountains as part of the Antarctic program.
Web links
- Mackin Table in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mackin Table on geographic.org (English)