Mount Johansen
| Mount Johansen | ||
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| height | 1555 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Johansen is a 1,555 m high mountain in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises in the south-central part of the White Massif .
The South Group, led by Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012), visited him for the first time in December 1956 as part of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Sergeant Geoffrey Raymond Johansen (* 1928) of the Royal Australian Air Force , an aircraft mechanic at Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Mount Johansen in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Johansen on geographic.org (English)