Mount Shattuck

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Mount Shattuck
height 1430  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Independence Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  S , 81 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 80 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  S , 81 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Shattuck (Antarctica)
Mount Shattuck

Mount Shattuck is a 1430  m high mountain in the Ellsworth Mountains of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 3 miles northwest of the Redpath Peaks at the southern end of the Independence Hills in the Heritage Range .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1966 after Wayne M. Shattuck, an aircraft mechanic in the United States Navy , who died on February 2, 1966 when the Douglas LC-47J Spirit of McMurdo crashed on the Ross Ice Shelf .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Mount Shattuck ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  2. http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/r4d.htm