Mount Kirkby
| Mount Kirkby | ||
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| height | 2438 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range , Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Kirkby is a large, elongated and 2,438 m high mountain with a flattened peak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 5 km east of the Crohn massif in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains . Only 460 m of its total height protrude over the continental ice plateau.
It was first visited in December 1956 by participants in the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions led by the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012). The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after Sydney Lorrimar Kirkby (* 1933), geodesist at Mawson Station in the same year.
Web links
- Mount Kirkby in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Kirkby on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bewsher, William Gordon (Bill) (1924-2012) . Entry in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science (accessed January 5, 2016).
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 858 (English).