Mount Harrington (Ross Dependency)

Mount Harrington
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height	2550 m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Quarles Range in the Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	85 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 85 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Harrington is a 2550 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Quarles Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6 km northeast of Mount Ruth Gade .

Participants in the American Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–1930) mapped it first. The United States Geological Survey mapped it again based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1960 to 1964. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1993 after John R. Harrington, meteorologist at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica Winter 1962.

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