Mount Twiss (Antarctica)
| Mount Twiss | ||
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| height | 2000 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Watlack Hills , Heritage Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Twiss is a 2000 m high mountain at the northern end of the Watlack Hills in the West Antarctic Heritage Range . To the west is the White Escarpment and Navigator Peak .
Mount Twiss was mapped by the United States Geological Survey as part of the survey of the Ellsworth Mountains in 1961-66 through field surveys and aerial photographs by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain after John Russell Twiss Jr. (1938-2009). Twiss worked as a representative of the United States Antarctic Research Program 1961-63 on the McMurdo station and 1968 on the research ship USNS Eltanin . He later became Executive Director of the Marine Mammal Commission , a US agency.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mount Twiss ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved November 11, 2010.
- ^ Union Glacier ( [1] ), Topographic Map of the United States Geological Survey , 1966.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1605 (English).
