Mount Barnes
| Mount Barnes | ||
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| height | 985 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Barnes is a 985 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It marks the eastern end of the Kukri Hills and towers over the west-central side of New Harbor on the Scott Coast .
He was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who named him as New Harbor Heights . He received his current one in the course of Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913). It is named after the Canadian-American physicist Howard Turner Barnes (1873–1950), an expert in the field of physical properties of ice.
Web links
- Mount Barnes in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Barnes on geographic.org (English)