Mount Johns (Prince Charles Mountains)

Mount Johns
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height	2080 m
location	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Prince Charles Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 30 '42 " S , 66 ° 33' 15" O Coordinates: 72 ° 30 '42 " S , 66 ° 33' 15" O

Mount Johns is a 2080 m high, isolated, steep-walled mountain, flattened at the top, in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises on the western flank of the Lambert Glacier in the southern Prince Charles Mountains .

Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions discovered it in December 1956 while on a flight to take aerial photographs. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it after David H. Johns, a physicist at Mawson Station in the Antarctic winter of 1957, who had already wintered on Macquarie Island in 1954.

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