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 Coordinates: 71 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E
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 .

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