Mount Feather
| Mount Feather | ||
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| height | 3010 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Feather is a massive 3010 m high mountain with a wide, flattened summit in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It marks the southern end of the Quartermain Mountains .
It is named after Thomas Alfred Forster "Taff" Feather (1869-1943), boatswain in the Royal Navy and participant in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who in 1903 Scott on an exploration march in had accompanied the mountainous region of Victoria Land.
Web links
- Mount Feather in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Feather on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 544 (English).