Mount Schopf
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Mount Schopf is an elongated, mesa-like, mainly ice-covered mountain (2,990 m), located just east of the Buckeye Table in the Ohio Range. It is the highest mountain in the Ohio Range.
Discovery and name
Mount Schopf was surveyed by the U.S. Antarctic Research Program Horlick Mountains Traverse party in December 1958. It was named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James M. Schopf. Schopf was a geologist in the USGS Coal and Geology Laboratory in Columbus, Ohio, who greatly assisted the field geologist by analyzing coal and related rock specimens from this mountain. Schopf was also a member of the Horlick Mountains Party during the 1961-62 season.