Mount Mahony

Mount Mahony (77°12′S 161°36′E) is a massive mountain, 1,870 metres (6,140 ft) high, standing just east of the head of Victoria Upper Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Western Geological Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and was named for Daniel James Mahony, a geologist of Melbourne, Australia.[1]

References
  1. "Mount Mahony". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-07-26.

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