Mount Rainbow
| Mount Rainbow | ||
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 Topographic map with Mount Rainbow (bottom right) |
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| height | 2050 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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At 2050 m, Mount Rainbow is the highest mountain of the Doolittle massif in the northwestern Churchill Mountains of the Antarctic Ross Dependency .
Participants in a campaign from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named it after the multicolored banding of sandstone and dolerite on pink-green limestone .
Web links
- Mount Rainbow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Rainbow on geographic.org (English)