Jaeger Table
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Jaeger Table () is the ice-covered summit plateau of Dufek Massif, Pensacola Mountains, rising to 2,030 m at Worcester Summit. The plateau was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1968 from ground surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1964. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN), at the suggestion of USGS geologist Arthur B. Ford, after Commander James W. Jaeger, U.S. Navy, pilot of the Squadron VXE-6 Hercules aircraft that landed the USGS field party in the area in the 1976-77 season.
This article incorporates text from Jaeger Table, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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