Mount Mervyn
| Mount Mervyn | ||
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| height | 2286 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Mervyn is a pointed and 2286 m high mountain in the east Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 10 km south of Mount Kirkby in the main massif of the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains .
The team around the Australian mountaineer William Gordon Bewsher (1924-2012) sighted him in December 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . It is named after Mervyn Valdemar Christensen (* 1923), meteorologist at Mawson Station in 1956.
Web links
- Mount Mervyn in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mervyn on geographic.org (English)