Mount Bloomfield
| Mount Bloomfield | ||
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| height | 605 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Bloomfield is a 605 m high, dome-shaped and layered with gravel mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the southern Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 8 km west of Mount Rymill .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it in 1961 after Air Force Officer Edward Bloomfield of the Royal Australian Air Force , navigator of the Antarctic flight from Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Mount Bloomfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bloomfield on geographic.org (English)