Mount Canham
| Mount Canham | ||
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| height | 1815 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Canham is a 1,815 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises at the northern end of the Bennett Escarpment and around 3 km south of the Corry massif .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1965. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after John Richard Canham (1917–1991), head of the Wilkes station in 1967.
Web links
- Mount Canham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Canham on geographic.org (English)