Mount Gjeita ( no, Gjeitafjell), or Mount Banfield in
Australia
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n sources, is the highest peak (1700 m) in the
Hansen Mountains,
Kemp Land
Kemp Land is a thin sliver of Antarctica including, and lying inland from, the Kemp Coast. Part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, Australian Antarctic claim it is defined as lying between 56° 25' E and 59° 34' E, and, as with other sectors ...
. It is situated about 3 nautical miles to the east of
Brusen Nunatak. It was originally mapped and named by Norwegian cartographers working with air photos taken by the
Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37.
In 1959, the Government of Australia named the peak as Mount Banfield after Flight Lieutenant G.A. Banfield,
RAAF pilot at
Mawson Station
The Mawson Station, commonly called Mawson, is one of three permanent bases and research outposts in Antarctica managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Mawson lies in Holme Bay in Mac. Robertson Land, East Antarctica in the Austra ...
.
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Mountains of Antarctica