Mount Petlock
| Mount Petlock | ||
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| height | 3195 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Grosvenor Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Petlock is a 3195 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Grosvenor Mountains , it is the most prominent elevation in the northeastern part of the Otway massif . It towers over the northern end of a mountain ridge on the eastern flank of the Burgess Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after James D. Petlock, ionospheric physicist with the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1963.
Web links
- Mount Petlock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Petlock on geographic.org (English)