Mount Kennedy (Antarctica)
| Mount Kennedy | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gustav Bull Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kennedy is a small and rocky mountain in Mac Robertson Land, East Antarctica . In the Gustav Bull Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south of Mount Rivett .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) landed on February 13, 1931 in an airplane near the neighboring Scullin Monolith . They named the mountain described here after the Australian physicist Alexander Lorimer Kennedy (1889–1972), who was involved in the research trip.
Web links
- Mount Kennedy in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kennedy on geographic.org (English)