Mount Bockheim

Mount Bockheim
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height	2749 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 78 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Bockheim is a 2749 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the northwest end of Maine Ridge in the Royal Society Range , where it is flanked north and south by Tedrow Glaciers and Matataua Glaciers .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American pedologist James G. Bockheim of the University of Wisconsin – Madison , who carried out soil studies in the Antarctic dry valleys in twelve research campaigns in the 1970s and 1980s .

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