Mount Welser
| Mount Welser | ||
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| height | 1150 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Welser is a 1150 m high mountain on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3.5 km east-northeast of Mount Davidson in the center of a mountain ridge south of the Albrecht Penck Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2008 after Lieutenant General William Welser III. (* 1949), Commander of the Eighteenth Air Force of the United States Air Force's air fleets in recognition of the air support provided under the United States Antarctic Program .
Web links
- Mount Welser in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Welser on geographic.org (English)