Mount Dockery

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Mount Dockery
height 1095  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Everett Range , Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Dockery (Antarctica)
Mount Dockery

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 .

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