Mount Otis
# Mount Otis

Mount Otis (75°5′S 136°13′W﻿ / ﻿75.083°S 136.217°W﻿ / -75.083; -136.217) is a small rocky summit along the north side of Kirkpatrick Glacier in Antarctica. The feature is 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 kilometres) southwest of Mount Sinha at the southeast margin of Erickson Bluffs in McDonald Heights, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Jack Otis, member of the biological party that made population studies of seals, whales, and birds in the pack ice of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas using American Coast Guard cutter USCGC Southwind and its two helicopters, 1971–72.

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