Mount Steinfeld
| Mount Steinfeld | ||
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| height | 685 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 135 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Steinfeld is a 685 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises at the western end of an icy mountain ridge at the connection between the Hull and Kirkpatrick glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1965. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Edward F. Steinfeld Jr., a meteorologist for the United States Antarctic Research Program on Byrd Station in 1962.
Web links
- Mount Steinfeld in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Steinfeld on geographic.org (English)