Murray Dome
| Murray Dome | ||
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| height | 1350 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Murray Dome is a 1350 m high, rocky and dome-shaped mountain in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Aramis Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, it rises 5 km southeast of Mount McKenzie .
Aerial photographs of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1956 and 1960 were used for mapping. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named the mountain after D. Lyndon Murray, a doctor on Macquarie Island in 1963 and on Wilkes Station in 1964.
Web links
- Murray Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murray Dome on geographic.org (English)