Haystack Mountain
| Haystack Mountain | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Haystack Mountain is about 1000 m high mountain on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the northeastern Gonville and Caius Range, it rises 2.5 km east of Mount England .
Participants in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped and named him. Name derives from the rounded top of the mountain which is a haystack ( English haystack ) recalls.
Web links
- Haystack Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haystack Mountain on geographic.org (English)