Mount Tukotok
| Mount Tukotok | ||
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| height | 2540 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Freyberg Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Tukotok is a 2540 m high mountain made of red granite in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Salamander Range of the Freyberg Mountains it rises 8 km east-southeast of Mount Apolotok .
The translation of the name, borrowed from the language of the Eskimos, is "the little red one". The Northern Group gave it this descriptive name from a campaign carried out from 1963 to 1964 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition .
Web links
- Mount Tukotok in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Tukotok on geographic.org (English)