Mount Rodger [SEP] continent
Mount Rodger
Mount Rodger () is a sharp peak, 1,410 m, at the northwest end of Collier Hills in the Heritage Range in Antarctica. It was mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66 and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Rodger A. Brown, meteorologist at Little America V Station in 1958.
See also.
- Mountains in Antarctica
historian Thomas Walker Horsfield, "fixed on sledges, and were sometimes composed of iron bars, laid side by side like the staves of a cask, and held together by iron hoops." These early cannons were so inferior to those made on the continent that the English Board of Ordnance simply ordered abroad, importing cannons and even shot from Europe.
But in the 1540s, all that changed. "With the conscious patronage and support of the crown", notes historian N. A. M. Rodger, "the established iron