Mount Gough
| Mount Gough | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Gough is a prominent and over 1000 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains it forms the eastern section of the Swithinbank Range and towers over the western flank of the Starshot Glacier at the confluence of the Donnally Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1967 after Robert Philip Gough (1910–1988), Surveyor-General of New Zealand from 1962 to 1970.
Web links
- Mount Gough in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Gough on geographic.org (English)