Mount Codrington
| Mount Codrington | ||
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| height | 1520 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Napier Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 52 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Codrington is a prominent 1520 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises about 40 km south-southeast of Cape Close and 28 km east of Johnston Peak .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1930), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, mapped it in 1930 as the mountain that the British navigator John Biscoe had sighted and named in March 1831.
Web links
- Mount Codrington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Codrington on geographic.org (English)