Mount Geissel
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 Topographic map of the Ellsworth Mountains with Mount Geissel (center) |
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| height | 1430 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Independence Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 81 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Geissel is a 1420 m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Independence Hills of the Heritage Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 5 km south of Mount Simmons .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Robert H. Geissel (* 1940), a geomagnetic and seismologist from the United States Antarctic Program on the US Plateau Station in 1966.
Web links
- Mount Geissel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Geissel on geographic.org (English)