Mount Lisicky

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Mount Lisicky
height 2120  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Lisicky (Antarctica)
Mount Lisicky
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Lisicky is a 2,120  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 11 km northwest of Mount Cock .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1963 after Joseph F. Lisicky (1917-1994) of the United States Marine Corps , maintenance officer in Operation Deep Freeze in 1960, who was also active in several Antarctic summer campaigns at McMurdo Station .

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