Mount Butterworth
| Mount Butterworth | ||
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| height | 1515 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Butterworth is a 1515 m high mountain with four peaks on a ridge facing east-west in the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It rises 8 km south of the Thomson Massif in the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 and 1960 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Geoffrey Butterworth, who was a radio operator on Wilkes Station in 1963 and Mawson Station in 1966.
Web links
- Mount Butterworth in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Butterworth on geographic.org (English)