White massif
| White massif | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 32 ' S , 67 ° 13' E | |
The White Massif is a mountain massif of the Aramis Range in the Prince Charles Mountains of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It rises 5 km east-northeast of the Thomson massif .
It was identified from aerial photographs taken in 1956 and 1960 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after Robert Frederick White, chief electrical engineer at Mawson Station in 1963, who died here on October 18, 1963 and was buried not far from the station.
Web links
- White Massif in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- White Massif on geographic.org (English)