Mount Torii
Mount Torii | ||
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height | 1600 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Torii is a prominent and cliff-like mountain in East Antarctica Victoria Land . On the north side of the Taylor Valley it rises above Lake Hoare and Lake Chad between the Suess and Canada glaciers .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1997 after the Japanese geochemist Tetsuya Torii (1918-2008), who had led Japanese teams in 20 campaigns between 1963 and 1987 for the geochemical investigation of the lakes and ponds in the Antarctic dry valleys .
Web links
- Mount Torii in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Torii on geographic.org (English)