Mount Lorius
| Mount Lorius | ||
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| height | 1690 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Monument-Nunatakker , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Lorius is a 1690 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Monument Nunatakkern it rises 4 km north of Mount Allison .
It was mapped between 1959 and 1956 by a team from the United States Antarctic Research Program to explore the Victoria Land. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the French glaciologist Claude Lorius (* 1932), a member of this team.
Web links
- Mount Lorius in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Lorius on geographic.org (English)