Mount Cherry-Garrard
| Mount Cherry-Garrard | ||
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| height | 987 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Cherry-Garrard is a 987 m high mountain at the seaward end of the watershed between the Simpson Glacier and the Fendley Glacier in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
The northern group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913 ) led by the British polar explorer Victor Campbell (1875-1956) mapped it and named it after Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959), assistant zoologist on this research trip .
Web links
- Mount Cherry-Garrard in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cherry-Garrard on geographic.org (English)