Mount Darby
| Mount Darby | ||
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| height | 1750 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Darby is a 1750 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 2.1 km northeast of Mount JJ Thomson on the watershed between the Rhone Glacier and the Matterhorn Glacier .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named it in 1998 after the New Zealand marine biologist Marie Darby of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch , who was the first New Zealand scientist in Antarctica in January 1968 on board the research vessel Magga Dan .
Web links
- Mount Darby in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Darby on geographic.org (English)