Mount Fiedler

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Mount Fiedler
height 1140  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Bender Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 140 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  S , 140 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Fiedler (Antarctica)
Mount Fiedler

Mount Fiedler is a 1140  m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Bender Mountains it rises 5 km west of Mount Mahan .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963.The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Leonard G. Fiedler, an electrician at Byrd Station in the Antarctic winter of 1960.

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