Mount Lowry
Mount Lowry | ||
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height | 1020 m | |
location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 84 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Lowry is a 1020 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 4 km northwest of the Wrigley Bluffs in the Anderson Hills .
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 James K. Lowry, a biologist at the Palmer Station in the Antarctic winter of 1967.
Web links
- Mount Lowry in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lowry on geographic.org (English)