Mount Hankey
| Mount Hankey | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Rouen Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 2 '59 " S , 70 ° 42' 39" W | |
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Mount Hankey is a mountain in the northeast of Alexander I Island, west of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the eastern edge of the Rouen Mountains, it rises 10 km southeast of Mount Paris on the land-bound side of the Roberts Piedmont Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 2001 after Henry Hanky (1914-1999), in the 1950s Undersecretary in the Department for South America in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for drafting the Antarctic Treaty .
Web links
- Mount Hankey in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)