Mount Allport
| Mount Allport | ||
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| location | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Leckie Range | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Allport is an ice-free mountain in Kempland, East Antarctica . It rises immediately west of Leslie Peak and around 8 km south of Mount Cook in the Leckie Range .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Bruce H. Allport, who was a radio operator at Mawson Station in 1965 and a member of a squad responsible for making tellurometer measurements in the Leckie Range in 1965.
Web links
- Mount Allport in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Allport on geographic.org (English)