Mount Harcourt

Short description: Volcano in Victoria Land, Antarctica

Mount Harcourt

Mount Harcourt, 1964 photo

Highest point
Elevation| 5,153 ft (1,571 m) [1]
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] : 72°18′S 170°00′E﻿ / ﻿72.3°S 170°E﻿ / -72.3; 170 [1]
Geography

Mount Harcourt

Hallett Peninsula, Antarctica

Geology
Age of rock| Oldest dated rock: 5.5 and 6.6 million years[1]
Mountain type| Stratovolcano[1]
Volcanic arc/belt| Hallett Peninsula

Mount Harcourt is a stratovolcano making up part of the Hallett Peninsula extending into the Ross Sea about 375 mi (604 km) south of Mount Erebus, along with three overlapping shield volcanoes. It was discovered and named by the Nimrod expedition in December 1908.[2]

Two dates have been obtained from the volcano's rock, roughly 5.5 and 6.6 million years in age. These samples are alkalic in composition.[1] The volcano is known to be a site of Boscoia sudpolaris.[3]

## See also

* List of volcanoes in Antarctica

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Mount Harcourt, Victorialand, Antarctica". http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/antarctica/harcourt.html. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
2. ↑ Mount Harcourt, New Zealand Gazetteer, https://gazetteer.linz.govt.nz/place/12904, retrieved 2019-04-02
3. ↑ Entomology of Antarctica. J. Linsley Gressitt (Editor). Accessed 23-7-10

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