Mount Alberts
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Mount Alberts () is a pointed, almost completely snow-covered mountain (2,320 m) situated 11 miles (18 km) east of Mount Phillips on the east margin of Malta Plateau, Victoria Land. The mountain stands immediately south of the terminus of Line Glacier and overlooks the west margin of Ross Sea. Named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1966 after Fred G. Alberts, Geographer, U.S. Department of the Interior (later with the Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center), who served as Secretary to the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, U.S. Board on Geographic Names, 1949-80, and was compiler and editor of this Gazetteer.
This article incorporates text from Mount Alberts, 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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