Mount Stinear
| Mount Stinear | ||
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| height | 1950 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mount Stinear is a striking, 1,950 m high and rocky mountain peaks , which consists of a large massif in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land rises. In the Prince Charles Mountains , it stands east of Mount Rymill at the confluence of the Fisher Glacier and the Lambert Glacier .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE). A first visit followed in 1957 by a team of this series of expeditions under the direction of the New Zealand geologist Bruce Harry Stinear (1913-2003), after whom the mountain is also named.
Web links
- Mount Stinear in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stinear on geographic.org (English)