Mount Sandow
| Mount Sandow | ||
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 100 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Sandow is a nunatak in Queen Marie Land in East Antarctica . It towers over the Denman Glacier 18 km southwest of Mount Amundsen .
Members of the West Base in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named the Nunatak after the German strength athlete Eugen Sandow (1867-1925), a sponsor of the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Sandow in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sandow on geographic.org (English)