Mount Mateer
| Mount Mateer | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Mateer is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 1.5 km east of Mount Degerfeldt in the Tula Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by members of a team on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after Norman Cooper Mateer (1885-1979), British crew member of the RSS Discovery on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) headed by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Mount Mateer in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mateer on geographic.org (English)