Mount Knox (Antarctica)
| Mount Knox | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Knox is a 800 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range it rises on the western foothills of the MacDonald Hills on the north side of the Taylor Valley .
The New Zealand Geographic Board appointed him in 1998 by the New Zealand zoologist George Knox (1919-2008) from the University of Canterbury , who founded the 1961 active and 1981 Antarctic research facility of the University and 1978-1982 President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research was .
Web links
- Mount Knox in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Knox on geographic.org (English)