Mount Dockery
Mount Dockery | ||
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height | 1095 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Everett Range , Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Dockery is a 1095 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the western section of the Everett Range in the Concord Mountains, it rises 5 km west of Mount Matthias .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Lieutenant Olan Leroy Dockery (* 1919), pilot of the VX squadron -6 of the US Navy, which operated from 1962 to 1963 and 1963 to 1964 to produce aerial photographs of the northern Victoria Land , Queen Maud Mountains , Britannia Range and the area around McMurdo Sound .
Web links
- Mount Dockery in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dockery on geographic.org (English)