Mount Dick (Antarctica)
| Mount Dick | ||
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| height | 2410 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Dick is a 2410 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains it rises 10 km east of Mount Egerton .
Scientists of a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Russell Gladstone Dick (1898-1966), then the chief geodesist ( Surveyor General ) of New Zealand .
Web links
- Mount Dick in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Dick on geographic.org (English)