Mount Fridovich

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Mount Fridovich
height 440  m
location Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Harold Byrd Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 85 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 148 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 85 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 148 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Fridovich (Antarctica)
Mount Fridovich
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Fridovich is a 440  m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It rises on the northern flank of the mouth of the Leverett Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf and marks the western limit of the Harold Byrd Mountains .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Lieutenant Bernard Fridovich of the United States Navy , a meteorologist at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1957.

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