Mount Leckie
| Mount Leckie | ||
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| height | 1506 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Leckie is a 1506 m high and roughly circular mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 5 km east of the Martin Massif .
The crew of a campaign carried out from 1956 to 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions visited him. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named him after Douglas Walter Leckie (* 1920), flight squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air Force and commander of flight logistics between RAAF Base Williams and Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Mount Leckie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Leckie on geographic.org (English)