COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

S-most of Schmidt Hills, Pensacola Mountains, rising to 1110m, was photographed from the air by USN on a flight from McMurdo Sound, Ross Dependency, to Weddell Sea and return, 13 January 1956; in association with the names of other crew members in this area, named after CPO Francis Gorecki, USN, radioman on the transcontinental flight ([in c. 83 35'S 53 00'W] AGS map, 1959; USBGN, 1960, p.4; [correctly shown] USGS sheet SU 21-25/13, 1969; APC, 1974, p.4). Gora Goreck (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). The mountain was rephotographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground on USGS Pensacola Mountains Project, 1965-66. Gora Goretskogo, presumably referring to this feature (Soviet Union. AA, 1966, Pl.24).

Mountain, 1,110 m, at the SE extremity of Schmidt Hills in the Neptune Range, Pensacola Mountains. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 on a USN transcontinental nonstop plane flight from McMurdo sound to Weddell Sea and return. Named by US-ACAN for aviation electronics technician Francis Gorecki, radioman of the P2V-2N aircraft making the flight.