Mount McDonald

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Mount McDonald
height 2470  m
location Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 72 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 166 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
Mount McDonald (Antarctica)
Mount McDonald

Mount McDonald is a 2470  m high mountain in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it rises 6 km northwest of Mount Burton on the northern flank of the Trafalgar Glacier .

Participants of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition (NZFMCAE, 1962–1963) named him after William McDonald (1892– after 1980), a resident in New Zealand, a sailor on board the Terra Nova in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .

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