Mount Breckinridge
Mount Breckinridge | ||
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height | 2050 m | |
location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Napier Mountains | |
Coordinates | 66 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 53 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Breckinridge is a 2050 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . In the Napier Mountains it rises 6 km south of Stor Hånakken .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it Langnuten (Norwegian for Langer Gipfel ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken as part of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Australian cartographers refined this mapping using aerial photographs made in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the American meteorologist John E. Breckinridge, who worked at Wilkes Station in 1961 .
Web links
- Mount Breckinridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Breckinridge on geographic.org (English)