Mount Doorly
| Mount Doorly | ||
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| height | 1066 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Doorly is a 1066 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it overlooks the eastern part of a mountain ridge between the Greenwood Valley and the Lower Wright Glacier .
He was discovered by participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . This named the mountain after James Gerald Stokely Doorly (1880-1956), a crew member of the SY Morning , one of the two rescue ships of the expedition.
Web links
- Mount Doorly in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Doorly on geographic.org (English)