Mount Tod (Antarctica)

Not to be confused with Mount Todd, in the Ellsworth Mountains.
Mount Tod
Highest point
Coordinates 67°13′S 50°39′E / 67.217°S 50.650°E / -67.217; 50.650Coordinates: 67°13′S 50°39′E / 67.217°S 50.650°E / -67.217; 50.650 
Geography
Location Enderby Land, Antarctica

Mount Tod (67°13′S 50°39′E / 67.217°S 50.650°E / -67.217; 50.650) is a mountain on the southwest side of Auster Glacier, at the head of Amundsen Bay 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 I. M. Tod, weather observer at Mawson Station in 1961.

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