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Mount Gunn () is a very large mountain, high, standing in the
Convoy Range Convoy Range () is a broad mountain range in Antarctica. Much of the range has a nearly flat plateau-like summit, extending south from the Fry Saddle and ending at Mackay Glacier. The range has steep cliffs on its east side, but it slopes gently i ...
about northwest of Mount Gran in
Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
, Antarctica. It was photographed in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey 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 by them for Bernard M. Gunn, a member of the party.


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Mountains of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub