Mount Redifer
| Mount Redifer | ||
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| height | 2050 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Redifer is a 2050 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Maud Mountains it rises 5 km south of Mount Ellsworth .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Howard D. Redifer (1922-1999), an electronics technician meteorological measuring devices at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1959.
Web links
- Mount Redifer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Redifer on geographic.org (English)