Mount Ajax

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Mount Ajax
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height 3770  m
location Viktorialand , Antarctica
Mountains Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 168 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 71 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  S , 168 ° 27 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Ajax (Antarctica)
Mount Ajax

The Mount Ajax is a 3770  m high mountain , which is 1.5 km west-southwest of Mount Royalist in the Admiralty Mountains rises. It was named after the HMS Ajax by participants in a campaign carried out from 1958 to 1959 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition . Other mountains in the area were named after New Zealand ships such as the nearby Mount Achilles after HMNZS Achilles .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mount Ajax ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ Mount Achilles ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 6, 2011.