Mount Malfait

Mount Malfait
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height	2080 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	73 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 73 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 168 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount Malfait is a 2080 m high mountain on the Borchgrevink coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 9 km northwest of Cape Crossfire at the end of a rugged mountain ridge that extends east from the Malta Plateau between the Mariner and Borchgrevink glaciers , where they flow into the Ross Sea .

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 2006 after Bruce T. Malfait (1947-2014), Head of Marine Geosciences in the Department of Oceanography of the National Science Foundation from 2001 to 2006.

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