Mount Jensen
| Mount Jensen | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gonville and Caius Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Jensen is a 1000 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Gonville and Caius Range, it rises north of the First Facet .
The western group led by the British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped him. Taylor named the mountain after his friend Harald Ingemann Jensen (1879-1966), an Australian teacher from Denmark .
Web links
- Mount Jensen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Jensen on geographic.org (English)