Mount Sutherland
| Mount Sutherland | ||
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| height | 2500 m | |
| location | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Sutherland is an approximately 2500 m high mountain peak on the Antarctic Ross Island . It rises 2.2 km west-northwest of the summit of Mount Terror .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2000 after Alexander L. Sutherland Jr., project manager for oceanography at the National Science Foundation , who was responsible for the operations and logistics of research vessels for the United States Antarctic Program from 1989 .
Web links
- Mount Sutherland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sutherland on geographic.org (English)