Mount Lanzerotti is the northernmost of the Sky-Hi Nunataks

Sky-Hi Nunataks

Sky-Hi Nunataks is a nunatak group 8 nautical miles long, located 11 nautical miles east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Palmer Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara,...

, rising to about 1,550 m in Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) in 1987 after Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis John Lanzerotti is a research Professor of physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.-Education:...

, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

Murray Hill

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, NJ, a Principal Investigator

Principal investigator

A principal investigator is the lead scientist or engineer for a particular well-defined science project, such as a laboratory study or clinical trial....

 for upper atmosphere research at Siple Station

Siple Station

Siple Station, Antarctica was a research station in Antarctica , established in 1973 by Stanford's STAR Lab, to perform experiments that actively probed the magnetosphere using very low frequency waves...

 and South Pole Station for many years from 1970; Member, Polar Research Board, National Academy

National academy

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 of Sciences, 1982–90; Chairman, Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science, 1992-93.