Mount Tolchin

Mount Tolchin
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height	1730 m
location	Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Patuxent Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Tolchin is a 1730 m high mountain in Queen Elizabeth Land in West Antarctica . In the southern Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 8 km southwest of the Houk Spur at the southwest end of the Mackin Table .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Lieutenant Sidney M. Tolchin (* 1932), officer on duty on the Amundsen- Scott South Pole Station in the Antarctic winter of 1959.

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