Mount Underwood
| Mount Underwood | ||
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| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Nye Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ S , 49 ° 31 ′ 48 ″ E | |
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Mount Underwood is an elongated mountain in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . It rises 3 km east of Mount Flett in the center of the Nye Mountains .
It was mapped using aerial photographs taken in 1956 and 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Robert Underwood, a geophysicist at Wilkes Station in 1959.
Web links
- Mount Underwood in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Underwood on geographic.org (English)