Mount Henksen
| Mount Henksen | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Henksen is an elongated mountain with multiple peaks in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It looms between Peacock Ridge and Mount Parviainen in the northern part of the Tula Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by members of a team on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956 and 1957. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after H. Henksen, a supposed crew member of the RSS Discovery on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Since there is no participant with this name in the crew list of the expedition, only the Norwegian Able Seaman Aage Henriksen (1895 - unknown) can actually be named .
Web links
- Mount Henksen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Henksen on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 721 (English).