Mount Tennent
| Mount Tennent | ||
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| height | 2895 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Dominion Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Tennent is a 2895 m high and rocky mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Dominion Range it rises 3 km south of the Vandament Glacier .
Scientists in a campaign carried out from 1961 to 1962 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the New Zealand politician William Blair Tennent (1898-1976), then Minister for Scientific and Industrial Research in his home country.
Web links
- Mount Tennent in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Tennent on geographic.org (English)