Mount Schaefer
| Mount Schaefer | ||
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| height | 1825 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Schaefer is a 1,825 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Admiralty Mountains, it marks the western foothills of Robinson Heights .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the biologist Paul W. Schaefer (* 1940), who was part of the United States Antarctic Research Program from 1966 to 1967 worked at McMurdo Station .
Web links
- Mount Schaefer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Schaefer on geographic.org (English)