Corry massif
| Corry massif | ||
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| height | 1784 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Corry massif is a large and 1784 m high massif with an unusual moraine pattern on the north flank in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 5 km west-northwest of the Crohn Massif in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains .
The massif was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1965 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Maxwell John Corry (* 1940), geodesist at Mawson Station in 1965.
Web links
- Corry Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Corry Massif on geographic.org (English)