Mount Benninghoff
| Mount Benninghoff | ||
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| height | 1965 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Benninghoff is a 1965 m high and mainly ice-free mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 2.5 km southeast of Terra Cotta Mountain in the Quartermain Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1993 after the US botanist William S. Benninghoff (1918-1993) from the University of Michigan , who as a member of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research repeatedly Antarctica to the Polar Research Board visited and 1966-1986 of National Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Mount Benninghoff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Benninghoff on geographic.org (English)