Goat Mountain
| Goat Mountain | ||
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| height | 1634 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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At 1634 m, Goat Mountain is the second highest mountain in the Denton Hills in East Antarctica, Victoria Land, after Mount Kowalczyk, 1.5 km further north . It rises west of the Hobbs Glacier between Hobbs Peak and Mount Kowalczyk.
Participants in a campaign carried out by Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions from 1960 to 1961 climbed it. They named him as an approximately 10 m high formation of gneiss on the south slope of the mountain in silhouette of a goat ( english goat ) is similar.
Web links
- Goat Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Goat Mountain on geographic.org (English)