Mount Chetwynd
| Mount Chetwynd | ||
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| height | 1400 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Chetwynd is a 1400 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises from the Kirkwood Range in the Prince Albert Mountains immediately south of Mount Gauss .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) discovered him. The leader of this expedition, the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , named the mountain after his friend Louis Wentworth Pakington Chetwynd (1866-1914).
Web links
- Mount Chetwynd in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Chetwynd on geographic.org (English)