Obelisk Mountain

Obelisk Mountain
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height	2200 m
location	Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Mountains	Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 77 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Obelisk Mountain is a 2200 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Asgard Range of the Transantarctic Mountains , it looms between the Catspaw Glacier and Mount Odin .

The Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) led western group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott gave it the descriptive name because it reminded them of an obelisk .

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