Mount Griffiths
| Mount Griffiths | ||
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| height | 1680 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Napier Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ S , 54 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Griffiths is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . In the Napier Mountains it rises 8 km northwest of the Wilkinson Peaks . Its two peaks reach heights of 1650 m and 1680 m respectively .
Norwegian cartographers, who named it Mefjell (Norwegian for Mittelberg ), mapped it using aerial photographs taken as part of the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . The Norwegian name today bears a mountain in Queen Maud Land . A sled team of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited the mountain described here in 1961. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after George Samuel Griffiths (1847 – unknown), from 1886 a member of the Australian Antarctic Exploration Committee founded at the time .
Web links
- Mount Griffiths in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Griffiths on geographic.org (English)