Carr Crest

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Carr Crest
height 1200  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 80 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 80 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 159 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E
Carr Crest (Antarctica)
Carr Crest

The Carr Crest is a 1200  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises at the northern end of the Churchill Mountains 12 km east-southeast of Roberts Pike on the east side of Couzens Bay on the Shackleton Coast .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2003 after the New Zealander Roderick Carr (1891-1971), participant in the Quest expedition (1921-1922) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his successor Frank Wild .

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