Mount Borland
| Mount Borland | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Borland is a large and slightly dome-shaped mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 8 km south of Mount Twigg near the head of the Lambert Glacier .
John Michael Seaton, flight officer of the Royal Australian Air Force , discovered him in November 1956 on a reconnaissance flight as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after Raymond Alexander Borland (1925-2007), a meteorologist at Mawson Station in 1958.
Web links
- Mount Borland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Borland on geographic.org (English)