Mount Alexandra
| Mount Alexandra | ||
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| height | 1274 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Alexandra is a 1274 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the south side of the formation area of the Garwood Glacier in the Denton Hills .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994 after the botanist Jane Alexandra (1829-1892), who was born in Calcutta , India and who emigrated to New Zealand in 1862 , who studied the study of lower plants .
Web links
- Mount Alexandra in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Alexandra on geographic.org (English)