Mount Curtiss
| Mount Curtiss | ||
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| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Curtiss is a 1300 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the eastern end of the main ridge of the Gonville and Caius Range .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1999 after the aircraft mother ship USS Curtiss , a troop carrier in Operation Deep Freeze between 1956 and 1957 in McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Mount Curtiss in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Curtiss on geographic.org (English)