Mount Razorback
| Mount Razorback | ||
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| height | 1600 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Convoy Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Razorback ( German Finnwal berg ) is a roughly 1600 m high and rugged mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It towers over the Staten Island Heights of the Convoy Range .
The New Zealand northern group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named it descriptively after its shape reminiscent of a fin whale.
Web links
- Mount Razorback in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Razorback on geographic.org (English)