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 | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Johns in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)