Mount Cotter
Mount Cotter | ||
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height | 1510 m | |
location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 84 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Feldkotter is a 1510 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the southern section of the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 6 km south of Gambacorta Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Henry Herman John Feldkotter (1918–1987), an aircraft electrician at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Mount Feldkotter in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Feldkotter on geographic.org (English)