Mount Kuipers
| Mount Kuipers | ||
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| height | 1940 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kuipers is a 1940 m high and ice-free mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it looms between Mount Benninghoff and the Knobhead .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after Ronald L. Kuipers of the Central Intelligence Agency , who between 1968 and 1980 served in committees for the coordination of Antarctic affairs on behalf of the US government.
Web links
- Mount Kuipers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kuipers on geographic.org (English)