Mount Strauss

Mount Strauss

Mount Strauss (71°39′S 73°12′W / 71.65°S 73.2°W / -71.65; -73.2) is a snow-covered mountain, 815 m, with a steep scarp on the south side, 6 nautical miles (11 km) east-southeast of the head of Brahms Inlet in the southwest part of Alexander Island. A number of mountains in this general vicinity appear on the maps of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48. This mountain, apparently one of these, was mapped from RARE air photos by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Johann Strauss I (1804–49) and Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composers.

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