Mount Kauffman

Mount Kauffman is a prominent mountain, high, that surmounts the northwest end of the Ames Range in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States [Geological Survey] from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and named by the Advisory [Committee on Antarctic Names] for Commander S.K. Kauffman, U.S. Navy, a staff civil engineering officer who supervised the planning and building of Plateau Station, 1965–66.
It is connected to Mount [Kosciusko (Antarctica)|Mount Kosciusko] by Gardiner Ridge which is at one end of Brown Valley.
Kauffman consists of a potentially active shield volcano with a wide summit caldera. Minor fumarolic activity was observed in 1977.
[Image:AmesRangeMap.jpg|thumb|none|300px|Topographic map of the Ames Range (1:250,000 scale) from USGS Mount Kosciusko]