Mount Matz

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Mount Matz
height 1300  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 74 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 74 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Matz (Antarctica)
Mount Matz
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Matz is a 1,300  m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the western flank of the estuary of the Anderton Glacier in the Reeves Glacier and there forms the end of a ridge that extends south from the Eisenhower Range .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1955 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after David B. Matz, geologist at McMurdo Station between 1965 and 1966.

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