Mount Hinks
Mount Hinks | ||
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height | 595 m | |
location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Gustav Bull Mountains | |
Coordinates | 67 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Hinks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hinks on geographic.org (English)