Mount Perseverance (Antarctica)
| Mount Perseverance | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Perseverance is a mountain peak in Victoria Land , East Antarctica . It rises at the southern end of a ridge that runs above the Benson Glacier from Mount Whitcombe .
The northern New Zealand survey team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped and named it in 1957. It is named after the fact that the summit was the last examined object of the lengthy survey work of this team ( English perseverance = German endurance , perseverance ).
Web links
- Mount Perseverance in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Perseverance on geographic.org (English)