Mount Stroschein

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Mount Stroschein
British Antarctic Territory
Range: Patuxent Range
Summit: 3 346 feet 84°24’58"S, 63°34’59"W

Mount Stroschein is one of the Anderson Hills, part of the Patuxent Range of the Pensacola Mountains in Queen Elizabeth Land, in the British Antarctic Territory. Its summit is at 3 346 feet, two nautical miles south-west of the Weber Ridge.

This mountain was surveyed from the ground by the United States Geological Survey, 1961-62, and photographed from the air by the United States Navy in 1964. It is named after Leander A. Stroschein, the United States Antarctic Research Program meteorologist, 'Plateau Station', Dronning Maud Land, summers 1965-66 and 1966-67.

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