Mount Béchervaise
| Mount Béchervaise | ||
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| height | 2360 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Béchervaise is a 2,360 m high massif of brown rock in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 1.5 km east of Mount Lacey in the Athos Range . It is characterized by a vertical north flank and apart from an ice cap on the summit, it is not covered in snow.
The Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998), after whom this mountain is named, visited it in November 1955 together with a team from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Mount Béchervaise in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Béchervaise on geographic.org (English)