Mount Pollard
| Mount Pollard | ||
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| height | 1782 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Porthos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Pollard is a 1782 m high and partially snow-capped mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises south of the Corry massif and 5 km west of the Crohn massif .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1965 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after John R. Pollard, an ionospheric physicist at Mawson Station in 1964.
Web links
- Mount Pollard in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Pollard on geographic.org (English)