Mount Phillips
| Mount Phillips | ||
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| height | 3035 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 167 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
At 3,035 m, Mount Phillips is the highest point of the southern part of the snow-covered Malta Plateau in the Victory Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1843) and named him after the British geologist John Phillips (1800-1874), co-founder and Assistant Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science .
Web links
- Mount Phillips in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Phillips on geographic.org (English)