Mount Slaughter

Mount Slaughter
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height	3600 m
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates	78 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 78 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ W
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Slaughter is a 3600 m high and ice-free mountain peak in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises from a ridge that extends southwest from Opalchenie Peak on the Vinson Plateau in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1957 and 1960. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the American electrical engineer John Brooks Slaughter (* 1934), director of the National Science Foundation from 1980 to 1982.

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