Mount Gauss
| Mount Gauss | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kirkwood Range , Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Gauss is a mountain in East Antarctica, Victoria Land . It is the northernmost peak of the Kirkwood Range in the Prince Albert Mountains and rises 5 km northeast of Mount Chetwynd on the southern flank of the Mawson Glacier .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1904-1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered and named him. It is named after the German mathematician and geophysicist Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777–1855). Due to the similarity of the name, there is a possible risk of confusion with the Antarctic volcano Gaußberg in Kaiser Wilhelm II Land .
Web links
- Mount Gauss in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gauss on geographic.org (English)