Fisher massif
| Fisher massif | ||
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| height | 558 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Fisher Massif is a 26 km long, 8 km wide and 558 m high massif in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises on the western flank of the Lambert Glacier and 70 km south of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains .
A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , led by the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913–2003), discovered the massif in October 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1958 after Morris Maxwell Fisher (1934–2016), geodesic on Mawson Station in 1957.
Web links
- Fisher Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fisher Massif on geographic.org (English)