Mount Picciotto
| Mount Picciotto | ||
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| height | 2560 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
The Mount Picciotto is a distinctive, mostly ice-free and 2,560 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It towers over the northeast end of the Painted Cliffs on the Prince Andrew Plateau in the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Edgard E. Picciotto, glaciologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station from 1962 to 1963 and participant in traversing expeditions through Queen Maud Land to the geographic South Pole between 1964 and 1963 1965 or 1965 and 1966.
Web links
- Mount Picciotto in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Picciotto on geographic.org (English)