Mount Davidson
| Mount Davidson | ||
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 Mount Davidson on the eastern edge of the map |
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| height | 1560 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Davidson is a 1,560 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises at the head of the Albrecht Penck Glacier in the Prince Albert Mountains . According to New Zealand geodesics, it should reach a height of 2477 m and would be the highest mountain in the Prince Albert Mountains.
Participants of the British Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) discovered it and named the mountain after the surgeon George Adam Davidson (1874-1906), ship's doctor on the Morning , one of two rescue ships on the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Davidson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Davidson on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 396 (English).