Mount Works
| Mount Works | ||
|---|---|---|
| height | 1780 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Concord Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
|
||
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Works is a 1,780 m high mountain in the Concord Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises west of the Horne Glacier and about 3 km southwest of Pilon Peak in the Everett Range .
It was mapped by surveying work by the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs by the United States Navy between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Lieutenant William Wesley Works (1932-2012), a US Navy pilot Lockheed P-2B for aerial photography in Victoria Land and other parts of Antarctica between 1961 and 1962 and between 1962 and 1963.
Web links
- Mount Works in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Works on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1725 (English).