Mount Coates (Mac Robertson Land)

Mount Coates
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height	1280 m
location	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Framnes Mountains
Coordinates	67 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 67 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Coates is a 1280 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the David Range of the Framnes Mountains it rises immediately south of Mount Lawrence .

Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered the mountain in February 1931. Mawson named it after the New Zealand politician Joseph Gordon Coates (1878-1943), Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928.

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