Mount Parsons
| Mount Parsons | ||
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| height | 1120 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Framnes Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Parsons is a striking and 1120 m (according to Australian data 1060 m ) high mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Framnes Mountains, it rises 1.5 km south-southwest of the northern end of the David Range .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . A team led by the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998) visited the mountain in January 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the Australian radiation physicist and Antarctic researcher Neville Ronsley Parsons (* 1926), who worked at Mawson Station in 1955 .
Web links
- Mount Parsons in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Parsons on geographic.org (English)