Mount Burton
| Mount Burton | ||
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| height | 2740 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Barker Range in the Victory Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Burton is a 2740 m high mountain from Grauwacke in the Barker Range of the Victory Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land .
Members of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Club Antarctic Expedition (1962-1963) named him after Albert William Burton (1899-1988), stoker on the research ship of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The American Burton, who lives in New Zealand, visited the Antarctic continent again as a guest of the United States Navy in the 1962 to 1963 season, together with two other veterans of the expeditions.
Web links
- Mount Burton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Burton on geographic.org (English)