Mount Todd is a peak rising to 3,600 m at the north extremity of Probuda Ridge in north-central

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. M ...

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...

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. It surmounts Embree Glacier to the west, Patleyna Glacier to the northeast and

Ellen Glacier The Ellen Glacier is a glacier in the central Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. It drains the eastern slopes of Mount Anderson and Long Gables and flows generally southeast for to Barnes Ridge, where it leaves the rang ...

to the south-southeast. The peak was named in 1984 by the

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(US-ACAN) after Edward P. Todd, a physicist for the

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from 1963 to 1984, and the director of the Division of

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of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1977 to 1984. Todd also had responsibility for the development of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program.

Location

Todd Peak is located at , which is 3 km north by east of Mount Press and 8.65 east-northeast of Mount Hale. It was mapped by the

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(USGS) from surveys and

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aerial photography from 1957 to 1960. The mapping was updated in 1988.

Maps

Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub