Konter Cliffs [SEP] continent
Konter Cliffs
The Konter Cliffs () are a line of cliffs, high, which surmount the east side of the terminus of Frostman Glacier, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy tricamera aerial photographs, 1959–65 and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Richard W. Konter, a member of the ship's party on board the "City of New York" during the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928–30.
Richard W. Konter
Richard Wesley Konter (1882–1979) was a Chief Radioman in the U.S. Navy, member of the Byrd Arctic and Antarctic Expeditions and a musician.
Explorer.
Konter joined the Navy in 1897 at the age of 15, and was a veteran of the Spanish‐American War. He worked his was up to Chief Radioman in the US Navy and retired after twenty-nine years in the service. Konter had sailed up and down the South Seas and the China Sea and had survived typhoons and the Boxer Rebellion