Mount Schlossbach

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Mount Schlossbach
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Schlossbach (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Schlossbach (bottom left)

location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Schlossbach (Antarctica)
Mount Schlossbach
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Mount Schlossbach is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . On the Edward VII Peninsula it rises immediately southeast of Mount Nilsen in the southern group of the Rockefeller Mountains .

It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This later named him after Isaac "Ike" Schlossbach (1891-1984), participant in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and from November to December 1940 involved in the construction of a seismic station in the Rockefeller Mountains.

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