Mount Capley

Mount Capley
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height	1810 m
location	Ellsworthland West Antarctica
Mountains	Nimbus Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 32 '0 " S , 83 ° 13' 0" W Coordinates: 79 ° 32 '0 " S , 83 ° 13' 0" W.

Mount Capley is a 1,810 m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It looms in the Nimbus Hills of the Heritage Range . The Donald Ridge runs south from the foothills of Mount Capley .

Mount Capley was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the mapping of the Ellsworth Mountains from 1961 to 1966 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Commander Joe Henry Capley (* 1935), a pilot in the US Navy. As part of the Deep Freeze operations in 1965 and 1966, he had piloted aircraft that took aerial photographs of Marie-Byrd-Land and Ellsworthland .

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