Mount Wishart
| Mount Wishart | ||
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| height | 1642 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Wishart is a 1642 m high and snow-capped mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises in the Prince Charles Mountains 8 km north of Mount Kirkby on the northern flank of the Scylla Glacier .
The mountain was mapped using aerial photographs taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named him after Edward Robert Wishart (1932-1993), a technical assistant on glaciology at Mawson Station in 1963.
Web links
- Mount Wishart in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Wishart on geographic.org (English)