Mount McGregor
| Mount McGregor | ||
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| height | 1676 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Thomson Massif , Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount McGregor is a cone-shaped mountain peak in Mac-Robertson Land, East Antarctica . It towers over the southwest end of the Thomson Massif in the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains .
He was first visited in December 1956 by the southern group under the direction of the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012) as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . It was named after the Australian geophysicist Peter Malcom McGregor (* 1928), who worked at Mawson Station in 1956 .
Web links
- Mount McGregor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount McGregor on geographic.org (English)