Finger Mountain
Finger Mountain | ||
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height | 1920 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Finger Mountain is a 1920 m high and elongated mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it rises on the north side of the Turnabout Valley .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after a finger-shaped dolerite vein that the mountain has between layers of sandstone .
Web links
- Finger Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Finger Mountain on geographic.org (English)