Mount Snell () is the southwesternmost and highest (about 500 m) of the three peaks on
Dorsey Island, an island merged within the
Wilkins Ice Shelf Wilkins or Wilkin is a name variant of William, and may refer to:
People Given name: Wilkin
* Wilkin Castillo (born 1984), Dominican baseball catcher
* Wilkin Mota (born 1981), Indian cricketer
* Wilkin RamÃrez (born 1985), Dominican baseball out ...
, off the northwest coast of
Alexander Island
Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarcti ...
and situated near the entrance of
Haydn Inlet
Haydn Inlet () is an ice-filled inlet indenting the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, lying between Mozart Ice Piedmont and Handel Ice Piedmont. Schubert Inlet lies to the south and the Lassus Mountains are immediately north. Haydn In ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. The
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
Basic meanings Geology
* Mountain peak
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-d ...
appears in
U.S. Navy
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aerial photographs, 1966, and
U.S. Landsat imagery taken 1975. This feature was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
for Lieutenant
Alfred W. Snell, U.S. Navy,
Staff Meteorologist,
U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze, 1967 and 1968.
Mountains of Alexander Island
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