Mount Blair
| Mount Blair | ||
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| height | 2120 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Outback Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Blair is a 2120 m high and striking mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the group of the Outback Nunatakker, it rises 10 km northwest of Mount Weihaupt .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it using its own measurements and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the mountain in 1970 after Terence T. Blair, a biologist at McMurdo Station between 1966 and 1967 .
Web links
- Mount Blair in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Blair on geographic.org (English)