Mount Bowen
| Mount Bowen | ||
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| height | 1875 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Bowen is a 1,875 m high mountain made of banded sandstone and with a sharp, black summit in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the Prince Albert Mountains on the northern flank of Davis Glacier and 10 km southwest of Mount Howard .
He was discovered by participants in the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904). Its head, the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named it after the New Zealand politician Charles Christopher Bowen (1830-1917), a supporter of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Bowen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bowen on geographic.org (English)