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Mount Paterson

Coordinate: S 78.03, W 155.023

Transportation: Twin Otter/Basler

Closest operations HUB: 928km to WAIS

GPS

Station ID: PATN

Installed: 2009-2010 season

Former Projects: JPL: Marie Byrd Land

Former Names: MBL1

Seismic

Station ID: MPAT

Installed: 2007-2008 season

Former Projects:

Former Names:

Pyramidal mountain about 2 mi NE of Mount Schlossbach, at the NE end of the S group of the Rockefeller Mountains on Edward VII Peninsula. Discovered by the ByrdAE (1928-30) and later named by Byrd for Seward M. Paterson, manufacturer who furnished shoes and ski boots for the ByrdAE (1933-35) (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=129898).