Mount Bird (Mac Robertson Land)
| Mount Bird | ||
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| height | 1700 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 44 ′ 38 " S , 64 ° 53 ′ 30" E | |
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Mount Bird is a 9.5 km long, 2.5 to 4 km wide and 1700 m high mountain with two peaks in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises in a south-southwest-north-northeast orientation 19 km south-southwest of Mount Rubin in the southern part of the Prince Charles Mountains .
Aerial photos of the mountain were taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1961 after Ian George Bird (* 1938), an electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Mount Bird in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)