Mount Sheffield
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Mount Sheffield () is a rocky mountain, 915 m, at the junction of Gordon and Slessor Glaciers on the north side of the Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and named for Alfred H. Sheffield, Chairman of the radio communications working group for the IGY, who was of great assistance in this field to the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-58.
This article incorporates text from Mount Sheffield, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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