Mount Marsden
| Mount Marsden | ||
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Gustav Bull Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Marsden is a 600 m high and rocky mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Gustav Bull Mountains it rises 5 km southwest of Mount Rivett .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) landed on February 13, 1931 in an airplane near the neighboring Scullin Monolith . They named the mountain described here after the British physicist Ernest Marsden (1889-1970), director of the Ministry of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand .
Web links
- Mount Marsden in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Marsden on geographic.org (English)