Mount Fearon
| Mount Fearon | ||
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| height | 1140 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Fearon is a 1140 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains, it rises on the eastern flank of the Woodberry Glacier around 10 km northwest of Mount Priestley .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy between 1956 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the New Zealand biologist Colin E. Fearon, who lived on the McMurdo between 1962 and 1963. Station was active.
Web links
- Mount Fearon in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Fearon on geographic.org (English)