Mount Burch
| Mount Burch | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Anare Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Burch is a 1,400 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 5 km southeast of Mount Kelly on the southern flank of the George Glacier in the Anare Mountains .
Participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law in 1962 named him after William Martin Burch (* 1938), a geophysicist on this research trip.
Web links
- Mount Burch in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Burch on geographic.org (English)