Mount Murchison (Victoria Land)
| Mount Murchison | ||
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| height | 3500 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Mountaineer Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Murchison is a very distinctive and 3500 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Mountaineer Range it rises as the highest point of the rugged watershed between the Fitzgerald and Wylde glaciers .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him in January 1841 during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843). He named the mountain after the geologist Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Secretary General of the British Association .
Web links
- Mount Murchison in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Murchison on geographic.org (English)