Shaw massif
| Shaw massif | ||
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| height | 1355 m | |
| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Charles Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Shaw Massif is a 1355 m high and flattened rock massif in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . In the Prince Charles Mountains , it rises 19 km south of Mount Willing on the west flank of the Lambert Glacier .
It was discovered on November 28, 1957 while flying over with a DHC-2 Beaver to take aerial photographs. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named the massif after Bernard Edward Shaw (* 1928), radio traffic supervisor at Mawson station in 1957.
Web links
- Shaw Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Shaw Massif on geographic.org (English)