The middle
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Prince Albert Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 75 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Mitten (English for Der Fausthandschuh ) is a non-iced witness mountain with a flattened summit in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises 3 miles northwest of Mount Armytage in the Prince Albert Mountains .
The southern group of a campaign carried out from 1962 to 1963 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him descriptively after his appearance.
Web links
- The Mitten in Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Mitten on geographic.org (English)