Mount Abbs
| Mount Abbs | ||
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| height | 2135 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
At 2135 m, Mount Abbs is the highest mountain peak in the middle of the Aramis Range , which rises west of the Thomson Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains in the Antarctic Mac Robertson Land .
It was discovered in December 1956 by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA) named it after Gordon Lindsay Abbs (1920–1999), a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Mount Abbs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Abbs on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 2 (English).