Mount McLennan

For another mountain in Antarctica with the same name, see Mount McLennan (Victoria Land).

Mount McLennan is a mountain 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of the Howard Hills in the northeast part of the Scott Mountains, Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for K. McLennan, a member of the crew of the Discovery during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929–31.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Mount McLennan". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  2. ↑ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 479. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount McLennan" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 67°12′S 51°5′E / 67.200°S 51.083°E / -67.200; 51.083


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