Mount Rosenthal

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Mount Rosenthal
height 1840  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Liberty Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 83 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Rosenthal (Antarctica)
Mount Rosenthal
Map of the region

Map of the region

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Mount Rosenthal is a 1,840  m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises about 5.5 km northwest of Moulder Peak at the northern end of the Liberty Hills in the Heritage Range .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Lieutenant Commander Ronald Rosenthal, who died as navigator of the Douglas LC-47J Spirit of McMurdo on February 2, 1966 when the machine crashed on the Ross Ice Shelf .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Mount Rosenthal ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.