Mount LeSchack

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Mount LeSchack (85°25′S, 124°0′W) is a distinctive flat-topped mountain, 2,265 m, standing on the north side of Perkins Canyon in the Wisconsin Range, Horlick Mountains. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-60. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Leonard A. LeSchack, traverse seismologist, Byrd Station winter party, 1958.

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