Mount Razorback
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Mount Razorback is a craggy mountain
rising to about 1,600 m east of Staten Island Heights
in the Convoy Ridge, Victoria Land
. The descriptive name was applied by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
, 1956-58.
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...
rising to about 1,600 m east of Staten Island Heights
Staten Island Heights
Staten Island Heights is a predominantly flat, ice-covered upland between the Greenville and Alatna Valleys in the Convoy Range of Victoria Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from ground surveys and Navy air photos...
in the Convoy Ridge, Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. The descriptive name was applied by the 1957 New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...
, 1956-58.