Tula Mountains
| Tula Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Pythagoras Peak ( 1275 m ) | |
| location | Enderbyland , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 54 ′ S , 51 ° 6 ′ E | |
The Tula Mountains are a group of sweeping mountains that lie on the east bank of Amundsen Bay in the East Antarctic Enderbyland . They include the Gage Ridge , a 11 km long and partially snow-capped mountain ridge that looms 4 km west of Mount Selwood .
They were discovered on January 14, 1930 by participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931) led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Its original name Tula Range goes back to the brig Tula , with which the British navigator John Biscoe discovered the Enderbyland in 1831. The current name came from the suggestion of the sled team around the geodesist Graham Alexander Knuckey (1934-1969) from the 1958 research trip of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions .
Web links
- Tula Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tula Mountains on geographic.org (English).