Mount Elliott (Mac Robertson Land)
Mount Elliott | ||
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height | 1237 m | |
location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 49 ′ 18 ″ S , 62 ° 33 ′ 27 ″ E | |
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First ascent | January 1956 by John Béchervaise and others |
Mount Elliott is a 1,237 m high mountain in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Framnes Mountains it is the highest point of the northern ridge of the David Range .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in 1930. A team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998) climbed it for the first time in January 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the mountain in September 1956 after the Australian meteorologist Frederick Winton Elliott (* 1928), who worked from 1955 to 1956 on the Davis and Mawson stations .
Web links
- Mount Elliott in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)