Mount Askin

Mount McClintock
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height	3000 m
location	Australian Antarctic Territory , East Antarctica
Mountains	Britannia Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 80 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E

The Mount Askin is a turn 3000 m high mountain with a flattened summit on the eastern edge of the Australian Antarctic Territory . In the main ridge of the Britannia Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises between Mount McClintock and Mount Aldrich .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it after the New Zealand geologist Rosemary A. Askin (* 1941) from the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University , who lived on the Antarctic Peninsula , the South Shetland Islands , in Victoria Land and in in the vicinity of the mountain described here.

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