Twickler Cone

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Twickler Cone
height 1950  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 162 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Twickler Cone (Antarctica)
Twickler Cone

The Twickler Cone is a cone-shaped and 1950  m high mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range, it protrudes from a ridge between the upper sections of the Bartley and Newall glaciers .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 after Mark S. Twickler, who was a member of a team at the University of New Hampshire between 1988 and 1989 involved in the extraction of two ice cores from the Newall Glacier not far from this mountain.

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