Mount Stirling (Antarctica)
| Mount Stirling | ||
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| height | 2260 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Bowers Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 33 '0 " S , 164 ° 7' 0" E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Stirling is a 2260 m high mountain in the Bowers Mountains in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises about 8 km southwest of Mount Freed and forms part of the east face of Leap Year Glacier .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1967 to 1968 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after Ian Stirling (* 1941) from the University of Canterbury , who was working as a zoologist at Scott Base during this time .
Web links
- Mount Stirling in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stirling 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. 1723 (English).