Mount Cassidy
| Mount Cassidy | ||
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| height | 1917 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Cassidy is a 1917 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it rises up as a striking landmark in the northeastern part of the Prentice Plateau . There is a rugged mountain ridge on its eastern flank .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2004 after Dennis Stephen Cassidy (* 1933), curator of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility and Core Library at Florida State University in Tallahassee from 1962 to 1991.
Web links
- Mount Cassidy in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cassidy on geographic.org (English)