Mount Vulture
| Mount Vulture | ||
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| height | 1675 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Schirmacher massif | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 '34 " S , 62 ° 22' 22" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Geier is a striking, mostly snow-covered and 1675 m high mountain near the Black Coast in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in the northern part of the Schirmacher massif .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it in 1974. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1976 after the topography engineer Frederick Joseph Geier (* 1939), who was involved in the USGS mapping the Lassiter coast between 1969 and 1970 .
Web links
- Mount Geier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Geier on geographic.org (English)