Mount Darbyshire
| Mount Darbyshire | ||
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| height | 2100 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Darbyshire is a 2100 m high, distinctive and unsnow-covered mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It looms just west of the Warren Range .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1961. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1964 after Major Leslie Lawrence Darbyshire (* 1929) of the United States Marine Corps , pilot of the Flight squadron VX-6 from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1962.
Web links
- Mount Darbyshire in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Darbyshire on geographic.org (English)