Mount Sones
| Mount Sones | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Tula Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 51 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Sones is a mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 3 km west of Mount Reed on the northern flank of the Beaver Glacier in the Tula Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken by members of a team on the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the mountain after Frederick John Sones (1886-1967), British chef of the RSS Discovery on the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson .
Web links
- Mount Sones in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Sones on geographic.org (English)