Mount Cresswell
| Mount Cresswell | ||
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| height | 1289 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Cresswell is a 1,289 m high, elongated and domed mountain with a small cone-shaped peak at the western end in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 40 km north-northeast of Mount Dummett in the southern part of the Prince Charles Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 during an overflight as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it on July 4, 1961 after George R. Cresswell, aurora explorer at Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Mount Cresswell in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Cresswell on geographic.org (English)