Mount Durnford

Mount Durnford
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height	2715 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	80 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 80 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Durnford is a 2715 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Churchill Mountains it rises 8 km southeast of Mount Field on the northern flank of the McLay Glacier .

Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him and gave him the name Durnford Bluff . Participants in a campaign that lasted from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition re-mapped and changed the name to the current form. Namesake is Admiral John Durnford (1894-1910), who supported Scott's expedition as Junior Naval Lord of the British Admiralty .

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