Mount Forecast
| Mount Forecast | ||
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| height | 1864 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Forecast is a 1,864 m high mountain with multiple peaks in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 1.5 km northeast of Mount Brown-Cooper and 20 km southwest of Mount Pollard in the Prince Charles Mountains .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 to 1965 were used for mapping purposes. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after Mark James Forecast (1940-2015), a weather observer at Wilkes Station in 1965.
Web links
- Mount Forecast in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Forecast on geographic.org (English)