Mount Van Veen
Mount Van Veen | ||
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height | 1510 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Morozumi Range , Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 71 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) |
Mount Van Veen is a 1510 m high prominent and largely ice-free mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises on the south side of the Jupiter Amphitheater in the Morozumi Range of the Usarp Mountains .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own measurements and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1960 and 1963. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1970 after the geologist Richard C. Van Veen (* 1944), who was responsible for the United States Antarctic Program operated at McMurdo Station between 1967 and 1968 .
Web links
- Mount Van Veen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Van Veen on geographic.org (English)