Mason Peaks
| Mason Peaks | ||
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| location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Grove Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 72 ° 46 ′ S , 74 ° 44 ′ E | |
The Mason Peaks are a distinctive and jagged mountain ridge with several peaks in Princess Elisabeth Land in East Antarctica . In the Grove Mountains, they loom eight miles northwest of Mount Harding .
They were mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1965 after the Australian topography draftsman A. C. Mason, who was involved in the creation of maps of Antarctica as an employee of the Australian Ministry of National Development .
Web links
- Mason Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mason Peaks on geographic.org (English)