Mount George Murray
| Mount George Murray | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount George Murray is a largely ice-capped mountain with a flattened summit in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Prince Albert Mountains, it rises in the area where the Davis and Harbord glaciers were formed.
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904), led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered and named him. It is named after the Scottish botanist George Robert Milne Murray (1858–1911), a member of the scientific staff of the expedition.
Web links
- Mount George Murray in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount George Muray on geographic.org (English)