Mount Gauss
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Mount Gauss is the northernmost peak of the Kirkwood Range
in Victoria Land
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named this feature after Professor Karl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician and astronomer.
Kirkwood Range
Kirkwood Range is a massive coastal range extending north-south between the Fry and Mawson Glaciers. A broad low-level platform on the seaward side of the range is occupied by the Oates Piedmont Glacier...
in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named this feature after Professor Karl Friedrich Gauss, a German mathematician and astronomer.