Mount Schwerdtfeger
| Mount Schwerdtfeger | ||
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| height | 2950 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Schwerdtfeger is a 2950 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Royal Society Range, it rises 2.8 km south of Mount Kempe from the ridge at the head of the Renegar Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1994 after the German meteorologist Werner Schwerdtfeger (1909–1985) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison , a driving force in weather research in Antarctica and an expert on wind conditions east of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Web links
- Mount Schwerdtfeger in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Schwerdtfeger on geographic.org (English)