Cumpston massif
| Cumpston massif | ||
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| height | 2070 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Cumpston Massif is a striking, 2070 m high massif with a flattened rocky peaks in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises north-south and has a length of 14.5 km at the junction between the Lambert and Mellor glaciers in the Prince Charles Mountains .
The massif was discovered in November 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian polar historian John Stanley Cumpston (1909-1986) from the Australian Foreign Ministry, who published a map of Antarctica in 1939 together with the cartographer Edward Percival Bayliss from the Australian Interior Ministry .
Web links
- Cumpston Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cumpston Massif on geographic.org (English)