Mount Newton
| Mount Newton | ||
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| height | 1065 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Newton is a big, hump-like and 1,065 m high mountain with conical peak in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is littered with boulders and looms between the Collins and Mellor glaciers in the Fizikov Massif of the Prince Charles Mountains .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him Geoff Newton, medical officer at Mawson Station in 1960.
Web links
- Mount Newton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Newton on geographic.org (English)