Mount Orndorff
| Mount Orndorff | ||
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| height | 1520 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 175 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Orndorff is a 1520 m high mountain not far from the Dufek coast in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises 8 km south of the Nilsen Peak on the west side of the Massam Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1966 after Lieutenant Commander Howard James Orndoff (1922–1992) of the United States Navy , a member of the team at McMurdo Station in the Antarctic winter of 1963.
Web links
- Mount Orndorff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Orndorff on geographic.org (English)