Mount Stonehouse
| Mount Stonehouse | ||
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| height | 2900 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Stonehouse is a 2900 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain of the Transantarctic Mountains, it rises 6 km southwest of Mount Falla .
It got its name from participants in the 1961 to 1962 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition . It is named after the British Antarctic explorer Bernard Stonehouse (1926–2014), who carried out extensive studies on penguins and seals in the Antarctic.
Web links
- Mount Stonehouse in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Stonehouse on geographic.org (English)