Mount Starlight
| Mount Starlight | ||
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| height | 2150 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Athos Range , Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Starlight is an elongated and 2,150 m high mountain with brown-colored ledges and steep slopes in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises at the west end of the Athos Range in the Prince Charles Mountains .
He was first sighted in November 1955 by a team as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Mayston Béchervaise (1910-1998). It is named after the so-called Operation Starlight , during which depots were set up for further work in this area during this research trip.
Web links
- Mount Starlight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Starlight on geographic.org (English)