Mount Quackenbush

Mount Quackenbush
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height	2435 m
location	Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica
Mountains	Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 80 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Quackenbush is a 2435 m high mountain with a flattened peak in the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains . Immediately to the west of the Peckham Glacier, it forms a protruding angle of the steep-walled cliffs along the northern flank of the Byrd Glacier .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1965 by Captain Robert S. Quackenbush Jr. (1903-1985), Chief of Staff Admiral H. Richard Cruzen during the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd led Operation Highjump (1946-1947) of the United States Navy .

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