Mount Liptak

Mount Liptak: Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Mount Liptak (78°45′S 84°54′W / 78.75°S 84.9°W / -78.75; -84.9) is a mountain over 3,000 m with twin summits, located 7 nautical miles (13 km) southeast of Mount Craddock in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It surmounts Bolgrad Glacier to the west and Kornicker Glacier to the east.

First mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for L.H. Liptak, aviation machinist mate, U.S. Navy, who served as plane captain on the first reconnaissance flights to this vicinity in January 1958.

Maps

Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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