Moore Pyramid
| Moore Pyramid | ||
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| height | 1619 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Moore Pyramid is a 1619 m high, snow-capped, pyramid-shaped mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises in the Prince Charles Mountains 1.5 km northwest of Mount Wishart on the northern flank of the Scylla Glacier .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Allan Linden Moore, a radio operator on Mawson Station in 1963.
Web links
- Moore Pyramid in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moore Pyramid on geographic.org (English)