Mount Kerr (Antarctica)

Mount Kerr (70°26′S 65°38′E / 70.433°S 65.633°E / -70.433; 65.633Coordinates: 70°26′S 65°38′E / 70.433°S 65.633°E / -70.433; 65.633) is a mountain about 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) south of Mount Creighton in the Porthos Range of the Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. It was plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos of 1965, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for A.G. Kerr, a physicist at Mawson Station in 1967.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Mount Kerr". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-04-29.

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