Mount Etchells

Mount Etchells
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height	900 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 17 ′ 4 " S , 28 ° 19 ′ 53" W Coordinates: 80 ° 17 ′ 4 " S , 28 ° 19 ′ 53" W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Etchells is a 900 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Coatsland . As one of the La Grange Nunatakkers , it looms west of Mount Beney in the northern part of the Shackleton Range .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The British Antarctic Survey carried out surveys between 1968 and 1971. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Nunatak on January 5, 1972 after William Alan Etchells (* 1928), mechanic and engineer of the British Antarctic Survey from 1962 to 1988, who worked in the Shackleton Range from 1968 to 1969.

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