Aurora Peak
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Aurora Peak is a peak
535 metres (1,755.2 ft) high along the west side of the Mertz Glacier
, 4 miles (6 km) south of Mount Murchison
. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
(1911–14) under Douglas Mawson
who named it after the expedition ship Aurora.
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
535 metres (1,755.2 ft) high along the west side of the Mertz Glacier
Mertz Glacier
Mertz Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier in George V Coast of East Antarctica. It is the source of a glacial prominence that historically has extended northward into the Southern Ocean, the Mertz Glacial Tongue...
, 4 miles (6 km) south of Mount Murchison
Mount Murchison (George V Coast)
Mount Murchison is a dome-shaped, mostly snow-covered mountain, high, on the west side of the Mertz Glacier, about southwest of the head of Buchanan Bay. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Roderick Murchison of Melbourne, a patron...
. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition
Australasian Antarctic Expedition
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australasian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. It was led by the Australian geologist Douglas Mawson, who was knighted for his achievements in leading the expedition. In 1910 he began to plan an expedition to chart...
(1911–14) under Douglas Mawson
Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...
who named it after the expedition ship Aurora.