Mount Heiser
| Mount Heiser | ||
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 Topographic map with Mount Heiser north of the Dorrer Glacier (center right) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Heiser is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Elizabeth Range it rises immediately north of the Dorrer Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1965 after the American aurora researcher Paul W. Heiser Jr. (1932-2010) who served at Scott Base in 1959 as part of the United States Antarctic Research Program .
Web links
- Mount Heiser in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Heiser on geographic.org (English)