Mount Shattuck
Mount Shattuck | ||
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height | 1430 m | |
location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Independence Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
Coordinates | 80 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 81 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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
- ↑ a b Mount Shattuck ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.vaq34.com/vxe6/r4d.htm