Mount Hurley
| Mount Hurley | ||
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| height | 560 m | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Hurley is a 560 m high and snow-covered massif with steep, unsnow -covered slopes on the west side of the coast of the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 11 km south of Cape Ann and 5 km south of Mount Biscoe .
Participants of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him in January 1930. Mawson named the mountain after the Australian photographer Frank Hurley (1885-1962), participant in this research trip as well on Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) and on the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Mount Hurley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hurley on geographic.org (English)