Mount Robinson (Enderbyland)
| Mount Robinson | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Nye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 49 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Robinson is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 4 km south of Mount Underwood in the central part of the Nye Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 and 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after Hartley Ricketts Robinson (1911-1959), who had a fatal accident on July 7, 1959 in an accident with a runaway tractor.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1311 (English).