Mount Holt
| Mount Holt | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 750 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 24 '10 " S , 71 ° 37' 59" W | |
|
||
Mount Holt is a 750 m high mountain in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises at the mouth of the Palestrina glacier in Lasarev Bay .
Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) were used in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain after Commander Fred C. Holt of the United States Navy , commanding officer of the VXE-6 flight squadron in Operation Deep Freeze in 1976 and pilot of an LC-130 Hercules the previous year.
Web links
- Mount Holt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Holt on geographic.org (English)