Mount frustum
| Mount frustum | ||
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| height | 3100 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mesa Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Frustum is a large, pyramid-shaped and 3100 m high table mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Mesa Range, it rises between Mount Fazio and Scarab Peak in the southern part of Tobin Mesa .
The northern group of a campaign from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it descriptively after the English name for a truncated cone or pyramid .
Web links
- Mount frustum in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Frustum on geographic.org (English)