Mount Harker is a

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peak located east of Willis Glacier in the

Saint Johns Range Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper Glacier, Victoria Upper and V ...

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 ...

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. The mountain was first mapped by the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by Robert Falcon Scott. The mountain is named for Alfred Harker (1859–1939), an

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who specialised in

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and petrography.

External links

Australian Antarctic Data Centre Antarctic Gazeteer
entry for Mount Harker.
Consorzio PNRA Composite Gazeteer of Antarctica
entry for Mount Harker.

Cited references

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