Mount Hunt
| Mount Hunt | ||
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| height | 520 m | |
| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Hunt is a 520 m high and domed mountain in the East Antarctic George V country . It overlooks a headland that ends at Cape De la Motte .
The mountain was discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . He named it after the British meteorologist Henry Ambrose Hunt (1866-1946), then director of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology .
Web links
- Mount Hunt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hunt on geographic.org (English)