Mount Snell
| Mount Snell | ||
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| height | 500 m | |
| location | Dorsey Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 20 '25 " S , 71 ° 34' 35" W | |
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Mount Snell is a 500 m high mountain on Dorsey Island in the Wilkins Ice Shelf off the northwest coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is the most south-westerly and highest of the island's three peaks.
The first aerial photographs were taken in 1966 by the United States Navy , and it can also be seen on Landsat photographs from 1975. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after Lieutenant Alfred W. Snell (1930-2013), meteorologist for Operation Deep Freeze in 1967 and 1968.
Web links
- Mount Snell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Snell on geographic.org (English)