Mount Hinks

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Mount Hinks
height 595  m
location Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Gustav Bull Mountains
Coordinates 67 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  S , 66 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 67 ° 53 ′ 0 ″  S , 66 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount Hinks (Antarctica)
Mount Hinks

Mount Hinks is a 595  m high and rocky mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Gustav Bull Mountains it rises 300 m south of Mount Marsden .

Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) landed on February 13, 1931 in an airplane near the neighboring Scullin Monolith . They named the mountain described here after the cartographer, mathematician and astronomer Arthur Robert Hinks (1873–1945), Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society from 1915 to 1945.

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