Mount Rodger
Mount Rodger | ||
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height | 1410 m | |
location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Collier Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
Coordinates | 79 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 83 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Rodger is a 1410 m high and pointed mountain peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range, it looms at the northwest end of the Collier Hills . The Schanz Glacier stretches to the west of it .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Rodger A. Brown, who in 1958 as a meteorologist at the Little America research station V was active.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mount Rodger ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.