Mount Ferrara
| Mount Ferrara | ||
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| height | 875 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Panzarini Hills , Argentina Range , Pensacola Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 15 ′ 17 ″ S , 41 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Ferrara is a 875 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . It rises 4 km northeast of the Vaca-Nunatak in the Panzarini Hills of the Argentina Range in the Pensacola Mountains .
He was discovered and photographed during a non-stop transcontinental flight on January 13, 1956 by the United States Navy from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1957 after the aircraft mechanic Frederick John Ferrara (1918-2000), crew chief on board a P2V-2N Neptune on this flight.
Web links
- Mount Ferrara in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ferrara on geographic.org (English)