Mount Falla () is a prominent conical mountain, high, standing northeast of
Mount Stonehouse
Mount Stonehouse () is a peak, 2,900 m, standing 3.5 nautical miles (6 km) southwest of Mount Falla in Queen Alexandra Range. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) for Bernard Stonehouse
Ber ...
, between
Berwick Glacier and
Prebble Glacier
Lennox-King Glacier is a large valley glacier, about long, draining Bowden Névé and flowing northeast between the Holland Range and the Queen Alexandra Range of Antarctica to enter Richards Inlet, Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the New Zealand ...
, in the
Queen Alexandra Range, Antarctica. It was sighted in January 1958 by the
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
party of the
Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. It was the first expedition to reach the South ...
(1956–58), and named for
R.A. Falla
Sir Robert Alexander Falla (21 July 1901 – 23 February 1979) was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist.
Early life
Falla was born in Palmerston North in 1901 to George Falla and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. As his father was work ...
, a member of the Ross Sea Committee.
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References
Mountains of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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