Mount Frishman
Mount Frishman | ||
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height | 1880 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Frishman is a small, pointed and 1,880 m high mountain peak in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it looms in the eastern part of Robinson Heights .
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 1970 after the biologist Stephen A. Frishman (* 1944), who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1966 to 1967 at Hallett Station .
Web links
- Mount Frishman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Frishman on geographic.org (English)