Mount Cowart
| Mount Cowart | ||
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| height | 1245 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Cowart is a 1,245 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises from the center of the Gale Ridge .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Master Sergeant Ray J. Cowart (1921-1992) of the United States Air Force , flight engineer and member of the United States Air Force Electronics Test Unit in the Pensacola Mountains between 1957 and 1958.
Web links
- Mount Cowart in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cowart on geographic.org (English)