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Mount Hardy () is a mountain standing close east of
Mount Oldfield Mount Oldfield () is a coastal mountain at the east side of Amundsen Bay, standing close west of Mount Hardy in the Tula Mountains. It was photographed and mapped by ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1956 and was visited ...
in the northwest part of the
Tula Mountains The Tula Mountains are a group of extensive mountains lying immediately eastward of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were discovered on January 14, 1930, by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) ...
, in
Enderby Land Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay at , approximately of the earth's longitude. It was first documented in western and eastern literature in February 18 ...
, 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 The Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC) was established to advise the Government on names for features in the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. The commit ...
for K. Hardy, a weather observer at
Wilkes Station Wilkes Station was an Antarctic research station established 29 January 1957 by the United States as one of seven U.S. stations established for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) program in Antarctica. It was taken over by Australia o ...
in 1959.


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

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