Mount Nickens
| Mount Nickens | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Hudson Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Nickens is a snowy, table mountain -like mountain on the Walgreen coast of West Antarctica Ellsworthland . With its steep and rocky north flank, it rises on the northwestern foothills of the Hudson Mountains at the base of the Canisteo Peninsula west of the Cosgrove Ice Shelf .
Aerial photographs of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) were used to map it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Herbert P. Nickens, who was instrumental in setting up the United States Geological Survey's map series over Antarctica .
Web links
- Mount Nickens in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Nickens on geographic.org (English)