Mount Rubin

Mount Rubin (73°25′S 65°40′E / 73.417°S 65.667°E / -73.417; 65.667Coordinates: 73°25′S 65°40′E / 73.417°S 65.667°E / -73.417; 65.667) is a large, gently domed mountain, with a long tail of moraine trending east, standing 16 nautical miles (30 km) west-northwest of Cumpston Massif in the Prince Charles Mountains. Photographed from the air by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions), 1956-58. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for American meteorologist Morton J. Rubin, U.S. Exchange Scientist to the Soviet Mirny Station during 1958; member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, 1973-74.

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