Mount Heer
| Mount Heer | ||
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| height | 1700 m | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 19 ′ 11 ″ S , 62 ° 57 ′ 6 ″ W | |
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Mount Heer is a 1700 m high mountain in the Palmerlands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km north of Mount Barkow on the southern flank of the Haines Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Raymond Robert Heer Jr. (1920–1983), head of the program for atmospheric physics in Antarctica with the National Science Foundation .
Web links
- Mount Heer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Heer on geographic.org (English)