Mount Ashford
| Mount Ashford | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Knuckey Peaks | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 53 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Ashford is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It is the highest and most striking of the Knuckey Peaks .
The mountain was used by a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions between 1974 and 1975 to set up a surveying station. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1975 after the meteorologist Anthony Raymond Ashford (* 1939), who worked at Mawson Station in 1974 and was involved in surveying the mountain.
Web links
- Mount Ashford in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)