Mount Slaughter

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Mount Slaughter is an ice-free peak, rising to 3,600 m on a spur trending southwest from Opalchenie Peak on Vinson Plateau, Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is surmounting the head of Donnellan Glacier to the northwest and Gildea Glacier to the south. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1957-60. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1982, after John B. Slaughter, Director, National Science Foundation, 1980-82.

Maps

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

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Slaughter" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 78°37′S 85°38′W / 78.617°S 85.633°W / -78.617; -85.633

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