Mount Skidmore

Mount Skidmore
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height	865 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 18 '14 " S , 28 ° 56' 48" W Coordinates: 80 ° 18 '14 " S , 28 ° 56' 48" W.

Mount Skidmore is a 865 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Coatsland . In the Shackleton Range, it rises on the eastern flank of the mouth of the Stratton Glacier .

Participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs mapped it in 1957. Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1972 after the British geologist Michael J. Skidmore of the British Antarctic Survey , who was active on the Brunt Ice Shelf from 1966 to 1969 and in the Shackleton Range from 1968 to 1969.

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