Mount Zeppelin


Mount Zeppelin is an Antarctic mountain, 1,265 m, standing 3 miles southeast of Eckener Point on Pefaur Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west coast of Graham Land. It surmounts Poduene Glacier to the north. Mount Zeppelin was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aeronautical engineer who perfected the large-scale rigid airship, 1894–1917.

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