Mount Rossman
| Mount Rossman | ||
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| height | 1450 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Enterprise Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 82 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Rossman is a prominent, wedge-shaped and 1,450 m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Heritage Range, it looms between the Henderson Glacier in the south and the Union Glacier in the north at the northern end of the Enterprise Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Rossman W. Smith, ionospheric physicist at Eights Station in 1965 and 1967 head of the Byrd station .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mount Rossman ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1327 (English).