Mount Nickerson

Mount Nickerson
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height	1480 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 83 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E.

Mount Nickerson is a 1480 m high and massive mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises 6 km southwest of Yeates Bluff between the Lennox King and Beaver glaciers .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Norval Eugene Nickerson (1920-2006) of the United States Navy , commander of the USS Edisto in Operation Deep Freeze in 1965.

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