Mount Janetschek

Mount Janetschek is a mountain, 1,455 metres (4,770 ft) high, standing between Mount Larsen and Widowmaker Pass at the south side of the mouth of Reeves Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1955–63, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Heinz Janetschek, a biologist at McMurdo Station in the 1961–62 season.[1]

References
  1. "Janetschek, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

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