Mount Radlinski
| Mount Radlinski | ||
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| height | 2750 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Whitmore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 103 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Radlinski is a rounded, icy, structureless and 2750 m mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the northeastern section of the Whitmore Mountains, it rises 6 km southeast of Mount Seelig .
The American cartographer William Hanell Chapman (1927–2007) mapped it on January 2, 1959 during an exploration trip of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to the Horlick Mountains between 1958 and 1959. Chapman named the mountain after William Anthony Radlinski ( 1921–2013), photogrammetrist and associate director of the USGS from 1969 to 1979, president of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 1968 and president of the Fédération Internationale des Géomètres from 1973 to 1975.
Web links
- Mount Radlinski in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Radlinski on geographic.org (English)