Mount Hardy (66°49′S 50°43′E / 66.817°S 50.717°E) is a mountain standing close east of Mount Oldfield in the northwest part of the Tula Mountains, in Enderby Land, Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions aircraft in 1956 and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for K. Hardy, a weather observer at Wilkes Station in 1959.[1]
Further reading
- EDWARD S. GREW, Sapphirine + quartz association from Archean rocks in Enderby Land, Antarctica, American Mineralogist, Volume 65, pages 821–836, 1980, PP 822 - 823
- EDWARD S. GREW, Osumilite in the sapphirin quartz terrane of Enderby Land, Antarctica: implications for osumilite petrogenesis in the granulite facie, American Mineralogist, Volume 67, pages 762–787, 1982, PP 763 - 765
- R. L. Oliver, P. R. James, J. B. Jago, Antarctic Earth Science, P 42
References
- ↑ "Hardy, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
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