Mount Douglas (Viktorialand)
| Mount Douglas | ||
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| height | 1750 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Douglas is a 1750 m high and exemplary pyramid-shaped mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises in the formation area of the Fry Glacier on the watershed between the Fry and Mawson Glaciers .
The New Zealand group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) set up a surveying station on the top of the mountain in 1957. The mountain is named after Murray H. Douglas, a member of the group.
Web links
- Mount Douglas in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Douglas on geographic.org (English)