Mount Mather (Antarctica)
| Mount Mather | ||
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| height | 2860 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 27 '20 " S , 61 ° 6' 47" O | |
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The Mount Mather is a 2,860 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 5.5 km west of Mount Menzies in the Prince Charles Mountains .
The mountain was discovered in 1956 by flight officer John Seaton of the Royal Australian Air Force during a flight by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). A seismological team mapped the mountain during ANARE, which ran from 1957 to 1958. The namesake is the Australian seismologist Keith Benson Mather (1922-2003), leader of this team.
Web links
- Mount Mather in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mather on geographic.org (English)