Mount Hunter (Ellsworthland)
Mount Hunter | ||
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height | 1566 m | |
location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
Coordinates | 75 ° 50 '48 " S , 72 ° 28' 0" W | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Hunter in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)