Mount Dickerson
| Mount Dickerson | ||
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| height | 4120 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Hochtour glaciated | |
Mount Dickerson is a 4120 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 6 km east of Mount Kirkpatrick .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Lieutenant Commander Richard Gordon Dickerson (1921-2000) of the United States Navy , aircraft commander of the VX-6 squadron during Operation Deep Freeze in 1964.
Web links
- Mount Dickerson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dickerson on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 429 (English).