Mount McKenzie
| Mount McKenzie | ||
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| height | 2255 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount McKenzie is a pyramid-shaped and 2255 m high mountain in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Amery Peaks of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 5.5 km southeast of the Saxton Ridge .
Participants of the 1956 to 1957 research trip as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions under the direction of the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924–2012) discovered him. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after John Alexander McKenzie (1907–1972), cook at Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Mount McKenzie in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount McKenzie on geographic.org (English)