Mount Simmonds
| Mount Simmonds | ||
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| height | 1855 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Usarp Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Simmonds is a 1,855 m high mountain on the Oates coast in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises near Mount Theaker on the northern flank of the Robilliard Glacier in the Usarp Mountains .
The area was geodetically surveyed by the United States Geological Survey from 1962 to 1963 and by participants in a campaign carried out from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition . The New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain after the New Zealand cartographer GAE Simmonds, who was involved in the creation of the map material from the survey work between 1961 and 1967.
Web links
- Mount Simmonds in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Simmonds on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1418 (English).