Mount Barr Smith
| Mount Barr Smith | ||
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| height | 1310 m | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Barr Smith is a prominent and 1310 m high mountain in Queen Marie Land in East Antarctica . It is the northernmost of a series of mountains along the western flank of Denman Glacier .
Members of the West Base in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in December 1912. Mawson named the mountain after the Australian businessman and philanthropist Robert Barr Smith (1824-1915), a sponsor of the Research trip.
Web links
- Mount Barr Smith in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Barr Smith on geographic.org (English)