Mount McKerrow
| Mount McKerrow | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Surveyors Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount McKerrow is a prominent mountain in Antarctica's Ross Dependency . In the Surveyors Range, it rises around 8 km north of Thompson Mountain on the eastern flank of the Starshot Glacier .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the New Zealand geodesist James McKerrow (1834-1919).
Web links
- Mount McKerrow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount McKerrow on geographic.org (English)