Mount Hooker
| Mount Hooker | ||
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| height | 3800 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Hooker is a 3800 m high mountain with a rounded summit in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises immediately south of Mount Lister in the Royal Society Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named him after the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).
Web links
- Mount Hooker in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hooker on geographic.org (English)