Mount Master
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| height | 2520 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Eisenhower Range Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Meister is a 2520 m high mountain in Victoria Land, East Antarctica . It rises at the north end of Nash Ridge in the Eisenhower Range on the west side of the Priestley Glacier .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1955 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American geologist Laurent Justin Meister (* 1936), who worked from 1965 to 1966 worked on the McMurdo station .
Web links
- Mount Meister in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Meister on geographic.org (English)