Mount Dockery

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Mount Dockery is a mountain, 1,095 m (3,590 ft) high, standing 6 km (4 mi) west of Mount Matthias in the western part of the Everett Range in the Concord Mountains of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. It stands on the Pennell Coast, between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

Mount Matthias is a mountain rising to 1,610 metres (5,280 ft) 2 nautical miles (4 km) east-northeast of Mount Dockery in the Everett Range of the Concord Mountains, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Jack M. Matthias, U.S. Navy, a maintenance officer and aircraft commander with Squadron VX-6 in Operation Deep Freeze 1968 and 1969.

Everett Range is a rugged, mainly ice-covered mountain range nearly 60 miles (97 km) long between Greenwell Glacier and Ebbe Glacier in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica. Mountains of the range include Mount Regina. These mountains lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

The Concord Mountains is a group name applied to a complex system of mountain ranges in northwest Victoria Land, Antarctica, comprising the Everett Range, Mirabito Range, King Range, Leitch Massif, East Quartzite Range and West Quartzite Range. This massive complex of topographical features lie situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

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History

The mountain was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and US Navy aerial photographs, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Olan L. Dockery, a U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 pilot who flew photographic flights in northern Victoria Land, the Queen Maud Mountains, the Britannia Range and the McMurdo Sound area in the 1962–63 and 1963–64 seasons. [1]

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Historic monument

Lillie Marleen Hut was erected at the mountain to support the work of the first German Antarctic Northern Victoria Land Expedition (GANOVEX I) of 1979–1980. The hut, a bivouac shelter made of prefabricated fibreglass units insulated with polyurethane foam, was named after the Lillie Glacier and the song "Lillie Marleen". The hut is also associated with the sinking of the ship "Gotland II" during a subsequent expedition, GANOVEX II, in December 1981. The hut has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 79), following a proposal by Germany to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. [2]

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Griffith Ridge is a rock ridge 5 nautical miles (9 km) long in the Bowers Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica, located just within the mouth of Champness Glacier, where the latter joins the larger Lillie Glacier. This geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Harry G. Griffith, U.S. Navy, public works officer at McMurdo Station, Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, 1967. This ridge lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

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Everett Spur is a prominent rock spur which marks the northwest end of the Everett Range and the junction of Ebbe Glacier with Lillie Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica. This geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Kaye R. Everett, a geologist at McMurdo Station, Hut Point Peninsula, Ross Island, 1967–68, and at Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, 1968–69. This spur lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

George Glacier glacier in Antarctica

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Graveson Glacier glacier in Antarctica

Graveson Glacier is a broad north-flowing tributary to the Lillie Glacier, draining that portion of the Bowers Mountains between the Posey Range and the southern part of Explorers Range, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature is fed by several lesser tributaries and enters Lillie Glacier via Flensing Icefall. The glacier was so named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1963–64, for F. Graveson, a mining engineer who wintered at Scott Base in 1963 and was field assistant on this expedition. The glacier lies situated on the Pennell Coast, a portion of Antarctica lying between Cape Williams and Cape Adare.

McCann Glacier is a tributary glacier which drains the east slopes of Mount Stirling in the Bowers Mountains of Antarctica, and flows east between Mount Radspinner and Markinsenis Peak into Lillie Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Chief Utilitiesman J.M. McCann, U.S. Navy, who was a member of the McMurdo Station winter party in 1962 and took part in summer support activities, 1963–65.

References

  1. ↑ "Dockery, Mount". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  2. ↑ "List of Historic Sites and Monuments approved by the ATCM (2012)" (PDF). Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-07.

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Coordinates: 71°13′S164°33′E / 71.217°S 164.550°E / -71.217; 164.550

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