Mount Perkins
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 Topographic map with Mount Perkins (center right) |
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| height | 1185 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Perkins is a 1185 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges, it looms at the eastern end of the Fosdick Mountains .
Participants in the second Antarctic expedition (1933-1935) of the US polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered him on a flight between December 15 and 16, 1934. Namesake is Jack Elton Perkins (1914-1963), head of the biological team in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), which had explored this area in December 1940.
Web links
- Mount Perkins in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Perkins on geographic.org (English)