Mount Dyke

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Mount Dyke ( 67°35′S49°25′E / 67.583°S 49.417°E / -67.583; 49.417 Coordinates: 67°35′S49°25′E / 67.583°S 49.417°E / -67.583; 49.417 ) is a mountain, 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) high, standing 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Mount Humble in the northeast part of the Raggatt Mountains. It was plotted from air photos taken by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Flying Officer Graeme Dyke, a Royal Australian Air Force pilot at Mawson Station in 1960. [1]

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Mount Humble is, at 1,450 metres (4,760 ft), the highest mountain in the Raggatt Mountains of Antarctica, standing 16 miles (26 km) south of the isolated mountain Mount Sibiryakov. It was plotted from air photos taken by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for John Edmund Humble, a cosmic ray physicist at Mawson Station in 1960.

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PD-icon.svg This article incorporates  public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Dyke, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System ).

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