Mount Atholl
| Mount Atholl | ||
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| height | 728 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Denton Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Atholl is a 728 m (according to another source 1087 m ) high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It looms west of Mount Alexandra in the Denton Hills on the Scott Coast .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1994 after the New Zealand botanist Sarah Atholl, who died in 1873 and specialized in lichens .
Web links
- Mount Atholl in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Atholl on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 87 (English)