Mount Hunter (Ellsworthland)

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Mount Hunter
height 1566  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Coordinates 75 ° 50 '48 "  S , 72 ° 28' 0"  W Coordinates: 75 ° 50 '48 "  S , 72 ° 28' 0"  W.
Mount Hunter (Ellsworthland) (Antarctica)
Mount Hunter (Ellsworthland)

Mount Hunter is a 1566  m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthlands . It rises 4.25 km southeast of Potter Peak in the Sweeney Mountains . A 7.5 km long ridge extends from it in a south-westerly direction.

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2009 after the sedimentologist Morag A. Hunter (* 1970), whose work from 1997 enabled stratigraphy in this area.

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