Mount Field (Antarctica)
| Mount Field | ||
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| height | 3010 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Field is a 3,010 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises about 5 km south-southeast of Mount Egerton in the Churchill Mountains .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered and named him. The exact background of the naming is unknown.
Web links
- Mount Field in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Field on geographic.org (English)