Mount Janus

Mount Janus (71°4′S 163°6′E / 71.067°S 163.1°E / -71.067; 163.1) is a bifurcated peak rising to 2,420 m at the north side of the head of Montigny Glacier in the Bowers Mountains. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) on the proposal of geologist R.A. Cooper, leader of a New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) geological party to the area, 1981-82. Named after Janus, the deity of portals in Roman mythology, symbolized as having two faces.

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