Mount Counts
| Mount Counts | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Counts is a pointed peaked mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Elizabeth Range, it rises on the east side of the Marsh Glacier at the end of a ridge that extends west from Mount Rabot .
Participants in a campaign from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition made the name. Namesake is Lieutenant Commander William D. Counts of the United States Navy , who was killed on November 9, 1961 in the crash of a P2V-2N Neptune shortly after taking off from Wilkes Station .
Web links
- Mount Counts in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Counts on geographic.org (English)