Mount Creighton
| Mount Creighton | ||
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| height | 1503 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Creighton is a 1,503 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 5 km east-northeast of Mount Gavaghan .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Donald Franklin Creighton (* 1940), electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1963.
Web links
- Mount Creighton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Creighton on geographic.org (English)