Mount Sparrow
| Mount Sparrow | ||
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| height | 2270 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Outback Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Spatz is a 2270 m high mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises 16 km west-southwest of Mount Weihaupt in the group of the Outback Nunatakker .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after Richard Spatz, an engineer at McMurdo Station in 1968.
Web links
- Mount Spatz in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Spatz on geographic.org (English)