Crohn massif
| Crohn massif | ||
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| height | 1694 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range , Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Crohn massif is a large, 1694 m high and dome-shaped massif in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 3 miles west of Mount Kirkby in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains . 460 m of its total height are visible above the continental ice plateau.
The massif was first sighted by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956–1957) under the direction of the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012). It is named after the German-Australian geologist Peter Wolfgang Israel Crohn (1925–2015), who worked at the Mawson station from 1955 to 1956 .
Web links
- Crohn Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Crohn Massif on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 858 (English).