Mount Todd

Mount Todd: Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Mount Todd is a peak rising to 3,600 m at the north extremity of Probuda Ridge in north-central Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It surmounts Embree Glacier to the west, Patleyna Glacier to the northeast and Ellen Glacier to the south-southeast.

The peak was named in 1984 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Edward P. Todd, physicist, National Science Foundation, 1963–84, Director, Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1977–84, with responsibility for the development of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program.

Location

Todd Peak is located at 78°05′39″S 85°52′39″W / 78.09417°S 85.8775°W / -78.09417; -85.8775Coordinates: 78°05′39″S 85°52′39″W / 78.09417°S 85.8775°W / -78.09417; -85.8775, which is 3 km north by east of Mount Press and 8.65 east-northeast of Mount Hale. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1957-60, updated in 1988.

Maps

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

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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