Watts Summit

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Watts Summit
height 1785  m
location Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 83 ° 12 ′ 20 "  S , 50 ° 29 ′ 29"  W Coordinates: 83 ° 12 ′ 20 "  S , 50 ° 29 ′ 29"  W
Watts Summit (Antarctica)
Watts Summit
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Watts Summit is a 1,785  m high mountain in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . In the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it looms at the southwest corner of the Lexington Table .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it in 1967 based on its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1979 after Raymond Douglas Watts (* 1945), who worked as a geophysicist from 1978 to 1979 in the Forrestal Range and was active in the Dufek massif .

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