Mount McCarthy (Victoria Land)

Mount McCarthy
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height	2865 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Barker Range in the Victory Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	72 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 72 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E

Mount McCarthy is a 2865 m high mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . It rises one mile northwest of Schofield Peak in the Barker Range of the Victory Mountains .

Members of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Club Antarctic Expedition (1962-1963) named him after Mortimer McCarthy (1882-1967), an able seaman in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who together paid another visit to McMurdo Sound with two other veterans of this research trip as a guest of the United States Navy in the Antarctic summer months of 1962/1963 .

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