Mount Porteus

Mount Porteus

Mount Porteus (66°49′S 51°3′E / 66.817°S 51.05°E / -66.817; 51.05) is a mountain just east of Peacock Ridge, in the Tula Mountains in Enderby Land. Plotted from air photos taken from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) aircraft in 1956. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for W.F. Porteus, a member of the crew of the Discovery during the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE), 1929-31.

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