Kieffer Knoll [SEP] continent
Kieffer Knoll
Kieffer Knoll () is a rocky knoll which marks the extreme northeast corner of the Queen Elizabeth Range, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Hugh H. Kieffer, a United States Antarctic Research Program glaciologist at Roosevelt Island, 1961–62.
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Description: Rocky knoll which marks the extreme NE corner of the Queen Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS
publications were his former newspaper "La Tribune" and also "La Lettre du Continent" as well as several Ivorian newspapers.
Kidnapping and probable murder.
At approximately 1 p.m. on April 16, 2004, Kieffer was kidnapped in the parking lot of a shopping center in Abidjan. At the time he was working on a story about money laundering and illegal currency transfers allegedly involving the Ivorian government.
He had been drawn there by someone claiming to have leads on a government corruption story he was assembling. He has