Mount Swadener

Mount Swadener
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height	518 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Alexandra Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 77 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 153 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Swadener is one of the Sneddon Nunatakkers in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . It rises 518 m high in the northern part of the Alexandra Mountains on the Edward VII Peninsula .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1971 after Lieutenant John Richard Swadener (1928-1996), navigator of a skid-equipped R4D , with which Rear Admiral George J. Dufek (1903-1977) succeeded on October 31, 1956, the first landing of an aircraft at the geographic South Pole .

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