Mount Sweatt
| Mount Sweatt | ||
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| height | 2540 m | |
| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Wisconsin Range , Horlick Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 47 '0 " S , 129 ° 39' 0" W | |
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Mount Sweatt is a 2540 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica . In the Wisconsin Range of the Horlick Mountains, it rises 10.5 km northeast of Mount Soyat from a ridge between the Hueneme and Norfolk glaciers .
The United States Geological Survey mapped the mountain on the basis of its own measurements and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1967 after Earl E. Sweatt (* 1935), a construction electrician on the McMurdo- Station in 1961.
Web links
- Mount Sweatt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sweatt on geographic.org (English)