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Mount Ojakangas
Mount Ojakangas
is an elongated
mountain
rising to about 2,450 m, 2
nautical miles
northwest
of
Mount Washburn
in
Gromshin Heights
in
the north
part of the
Sentinel Range
,
Ellsworth Mountains
. It surmounts
Vicha Glacier
to the east and
Newcomer Glacier
to
the west
.
The mountain was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
in
1982
after
Richard Ojakangas
, a professor of Geology at the
University of Minnesota
in Duluth, and a member of the
United States Antarctic Research Program
Ellsworth Mountains Expedition
of 1979–80.
Maps
Scale
1:250 000
topographic map
. Reston, Virginia:
US Geological Survey
,
1961
.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of
Antarctica
. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly updated.