Prospect Mesa
| Prospect Mesa | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Olympus Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Prospect Mesa is a low table mountain in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it rises below the Bull Pass on the north side of the Wright Valley .
The New Zealand geologists Colin George Vucetich (1918-2007) and Wayne W. Topping (* 1947) named him in the course of a 1969 to 1970 campaign of Victoria University's Antarctic Expeditions . It is named after the prospect formation of the late Miocene and early Pliocene that dominates here .
Web links
- Prospect Mesa in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Prospect Mesa on geographic.org (English)