Mount Mahony
| Mount Mahony | ||
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| height | 1870 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Saint Johns Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Mahony is a massive and 1,870 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Saint Johns Range it rises immediately to the east of the head end of the Upper Victoria Glacier .
The western group led by the British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped and named him. It is named after the Australian geologist and petrologist Daniel James Mahony (1878–1944).
Web links
- Mount Mahony in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mahony on geographic.org (English)