Mount Strathcona
| Mount Strathcona | ||
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| height | 1380 m | |
| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 99 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Strathcona is a 1380 m high mountain in Queen Marie Land in East Antarctica . It rises 18 km south of Mount Barr Smith on the western flank of the Denman Glacier from the Antarctic Ice Sheet .
Participants of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered him. Mawson named him after Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820-1914), High Commissioner of Canada in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1896 until his death and sponsor of Mawson's expedition.
Web links
- Mount Strathcona in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Strathcona on geographic.org (English)