- Mount Harrington
-
Mount Harrington (72°45′S 168°57′E / 72.75°S 168.95°E) is an one of the highest peaks in the east end of the Victory Mountains, Victoria Land, rising to 2,610 m on the west side of Whitehall Glacier and 5 nautical miles (9 km) southwest of Mount Northampton. Named in 1960 by New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) after geologist Hilary J. Harrington, who led the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) in exploring this region, 1957–58, and also led NZGSAE in the McMurdo Sound region, 1958–59; United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) investigator (with Russell J. Korsch) in the McMurdo Sound region, 1968-69.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Harrington" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).This Borchgrevink Coast location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
