Mount Gardner (Prince Charles Mountains)
| Mount Gardner | ||
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| height | 1991 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 24 '40 " S , 65 ° 54' 11" O | |
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Mount Gardner is a striking and 1991 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 49 km east-southeast of Mount Béchervaise in the central part of the Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains . At its eastern end two small mountain peaks rise , the western section and its north face are covered in snow.
The southern group of a team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012) visited him in December 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Lionel George Gardner (* 1924), mechanic for diesel engines at nearby Davis Station in 1958.
Web links
- Mount Gardner in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)