Napier Mountains
| Napier Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Elkins ( 2300 m ) | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 30 ′ S , 53 ° 40 ′ E | |
The Napier Mountains are a group of more or less separated mountains of up to 2,300 m in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They extend over a length of 60 km in a north-west-south-east orientation. Its center is about 60 km south of Cape Batterbee .
The mountains were discovered in January 1930 during the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE; 1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . This named it after Thomas John Mellis Napier (1882-1976), from 1924 to 1967 judge at the Supreme Court of South Australia .
Web links
- Napier Mountains in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Napier Mountains on geographic.org