Mount Heg
| Mount Heg | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Heg is a massive and icy mountain around 2000 m high in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains , it forms the southern end of a spur of the western section of the Malta Plateau . It is limited in the west by the Seafarer, in the south by the Mariner and in the east by the Potts Glacier .
The mountain was first shown on a New Zealand map from 1960, based on aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1972 after James E. Heg (1919-2015), director of planning and coordination of the polar program at the National Science Foundation .
Web links
- Mount Heg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Heg on geographic.org (English)