Mount Ferrara

Mount Ferrara
Mount Ferrara Pensacola Mountains
Highest point
Elevation	875 m (2,871 ft)
Coordinates	82°15′S 41°25′W / 82.250°S 41.417°W / -82.250; -41.417Coordinates: 82°15′S 41°25′W / 82.250°S 41.417°W / -82.250; -41.417
Geography
Location	Pensacola Mountains
Parent range	Argentina Range

Mount Ferrara is a mountain in Antarctica, 875 metres (2,870 ft) high, standing 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) northeast of Vaca Nunatak in the Panzarini Hills portion of the Argentina Range, in the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed during a U.S. Navy transcontinental nonstop plane flight of January 13, 1956 from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Chief Aviation Machinists Mate Frederick J. Ferrara, U.S. Navy, crew chief of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making the flight.^[1]

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Ferrara, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).