Mount Hunt
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Mount Hunt is a dome-shaped mountain
about 520 m high, surmounting the promontory which terminates in Cape De la Motte
. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
(1911-14) under Douglas Mawson
, who named it for H.A. Hunt, Dir. of the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology.
Mountain
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about 520 m high, surmounting the promontory which terminates in Cape De la Motte
Cape De la Motte
Cape De la Motte is a prominent cape separating Watt and Buchanan Bays. Just southward the continental ice surface rises 520 m at Mount Hunt. Charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for C.P...
. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...
(1911-14) under Douglas Mawson
Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...
, who named it for H.A. Hunt, Dir. of the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology.