Mount Murchison (George V Land)
| Mount Murchison | ||
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| height | 565 m | |
| location | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Murchison is a 565 m high, dome-shaped and mostly snow-covered mountain in the East Antarctic George V country . It rises 18 km southwest of the head end of Buchanan Bay on the western flank of the Mertz Glacier .
The mountain was discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . This named him after Roderick Murchison (1848-1921), a banker from Melbourne and financier of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Murchison in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Murchison on geographic.org (English)