Mount death
| Mount death | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 50 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Tod is a prominent mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises at the head of the Amundsen Bay or on the southwest side of the Auster Glacier .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 were used for mapping purposes. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after Ian Maxwell's death (* 1927), who worked as a weather observer at Mawson Station in 1961 .
Web links
- Mount death in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Tod on geographic.org (English)