Mount Kauffman

Mount Kauffman is a prominent mountain, 2,365 metres (7,760 ft) high, that surmounts the northwest end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

Kauffman, U.S. Navy, a staff civil engineering officer who supervised the planning and building of Plateau Station, 1965–66.

[1] It is connected to Mount Kosciusko by Gardiner Ridge which is at one end of Brown Valley.

Kauffman consists of a potentially active shield volcano with a 3 km (1.9 mi) wide summit caldera.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from "Mount Kauffman".

Topographic map of the Ames Range (1:250,000 scale) from USGS Mount Kosciusko