Mount Sirius
| Mount Sirius | ||
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| height | 2300 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Sirius a 2300 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 5.5 km north of the Bauhs-Nunatak from a wedge-shaped and ice-free rock spur between the Walcott firn field and the Bowden firn field .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the star Sirius , who served them as a benchmark for land surveying work in the area.
Web links
- Mount Sirius in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sirius on geographic.org (English)