Mount Leland
| Mount Leland | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Leland is a rocky mountain peak in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises 1.5 km west of the Upper Victoria Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1976 after Bainbridge B. Leland (1921-2011), captain of the icebreaker USCG Burton Island in Operation Deep Freeze in 1968 and 1969.
Web links
- Mount Leland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Leland on geographic.org (English)