Mount Stroschein
| Mount Stroschein | ||
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| height | 1020 m | |
| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 24 '58 " S , 63 ° 34' 59" W | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Stroschein is a 1020 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the northern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains it rises 3 km southwest of Weber Ridge in the Anderson Hills .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Leander Adolph Stroschein (1940-2002), meteorologist on the plateau station in two Antarctic summer campaigns between 1965 and 1967.
Web links
- Mount Stroschein in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stroschein on geographic.org (English)