Mount Christensen
| Mount Christensen | ||
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| height | 1475 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 47 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Christensen is a striking, icy and 1,475 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises on the southwest side of the Rayner Glacier . About 20 kilometers to the west are the mountains of German-Soviet friendship .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered the mountain on January 30, 1930. Mawson named him after the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen (1884-1965), who made numerous expeditions to the Antarctic (see Norwegian Antarctic Expedition ).
Web links
- Mount Christensen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Christensen on geographic.org (English)