Mount High (Antarctica)

Mount High
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height	1600 m
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains	Werner Mountains
Coordinates	73 ° 34 ′ 57 ″ S , 62 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ W Coordinates: 73 ° 34 ′ 57 ″ S , 62 ° 5 ′ 37 ″ W

At 1600 m, Mount High is the highest mountain in the Werner Mountains near the Lassiter coast in Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the south side of the Douglas Glacier in the center of the mountains.

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1967. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Harvey W. High (1938–1982), cook on the Amundsen-Scott -South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967, which fell from the gangway and drowned on July 26, 1982 while boarding the Hero ship for a supply trip to the Palmer station in the port of Punta Arenas .

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