Mount Huxley (Antarctica)
| Mount Huxley | ||
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| height | 1155 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Huxley is a 1155 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . At the northern end of the Royal Society Range, it rises not far from the Ferrar Glacier between the Condit and Descent glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1992 after Leonard Huxley (1860-1933), editor of the two-volume work Scott's Last Expedition on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Mount Huxley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Huxley on geographic.org (English)