Mount Picciotto

Mount Picciotto (83°46′S 163°0′E) is a prominent, mainly ice-free mountain, 2,560 m, surmounting the northeast end of Painted Cliffs on Prince Andrew Plateau, Queen Elizabeth Range. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Edgard E. Picciotto, glaciologist at South Pole Station, 1962–63; South Pole—Queen Maud Land Traverse I and II, 1964–65 and 1965–66.

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