Mount Katsufrakis

Mount Katsufrakis
	Topographic map with Mount Katsufrakis on the Markham Plateau (below)
location	Ross Dependency , East Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 82 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Katsufrakis is a protruding mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Elizabeth Range, it rises on the east side of the Markham Plateau .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own tellurometer measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after the American radiation researcher John Peter Katsufrakis (1925–1994), who im As part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1963 to 1964 at McMurdo Station and from 1964 to 1965 and between 1965 and 1966 at Byrd Station .

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