Portal Mountain
| Portal Mountain | ||
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 Camp on the eastern flank of Portal Mountain not far from the polar plateau |
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| height | 2555 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Portal Mountain ( English for entrance mountain ) is a 2555 m high mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . With an ice cap on the summit, rises south of the Lashly Mountains on the south side of the main stream of the Skelton Glacier , where it flows away from the polar plateau .
The descriptive name gave him participants of the New Zealand team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) based on the name of the glacier passage The Portal , which is formed by him and the Lashly Mountains.
Web links
- Portal Mountain in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Portal Mountain on geographic.org (English)
Mount Harmsworth map sheet from 1963 (reprinted 1988), Portal Mountain near the center of the northern edge of the map