Mount Fiedler
Mount Fiedler | ||
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height | 1140 m | |
location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Bender Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 85 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 140 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Fiedler in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fiedler on geographic.org (English)