Mount Degerfeldt
| Mount Degerfeldt | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Degerfeldt is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 5.5 km south of Mount Storer in the Tula Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by members of a team on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after Carl Larsson "Charles" Degerfeldt (1867–1945), who came from Sweden and was a carpenter for the RSS Discovery on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Mount Degerfeldt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Degerfeldt on geographic.org (English)