Mount Rockmore
| Mount Rockmore | ||
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| location | Australian Antarctic Territory , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Britannia Range | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Rockmore is a 1730 m high mountain in the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains . It rises 6 km north of Mount Aldrich .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) named him in 2000 after the US geographer Mark Rockmore, who had worked for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency or its predecessors since 1979 and had been a member of the US-ACAN since 1994 .
Web links
- Mount Rockmore in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rockmore on geographic.org (English)