Mount Kaschak
| Mount Kaschak | ||
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| height | 1580 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Neptune Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 1 '59 " S , 56 ° 39' 58" W | |
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Mount Kaschak is a 1580 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the southern section of the Neptune Range in the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 10 km west of Gambacorta Peak .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after John P. Kaschak, aircraft engineer at Ellsworth Station in the Antarctic winter of 1958.
Web links
- Mount Kaschak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kaschak on geographic.org (English)