Mount Ester
| Mount Ester | ||
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| height | 2200 m | |
| location | Australian Antarctic Territory | |
| Mountains | Geologists Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 155 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Ester is a 2200 m high mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . It rises from the western section of McKay Cliffs in the Geologists Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Donald W. Ester, geologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on the McMurdo- Station from 1962 to 1963.
Web links
- Mount Ester in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ester on geographic.org (English)