New Mountain
| New Mountain | ||
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| height | 2260 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Quartermain Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The New Mountain is a 2260 m (according to New Zealand information 2387 m ) high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Quartermain Mountains it towers over the Arena Valley and the Windy Gully on the south side of the Taylor Glacier .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, mapped and named him.
Web links
- New Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- New Mountain on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1097 (English).