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Mount Henderson is a hill 2 nautical miles (4 km) west-northwest of Isolation Point in the south-central part of White Island, in the Ross Archipelago, Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1958–59) for G.B. Henderson, a member of that expedition.

Mount Henderson is a prominent mountain. It is 2,660 metres (8,730 ft) high, and stands 5 nautical miles (9 km) west of Mount Olympus in the Britannia Range of Antarctica. It was discovered and named by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04.

Mount Henderson is a massive mountain, 970 metres (3,180 ft) high, rising through the ice sheet 5 nautical miles (9 km) southeast of Holme Bay and a like distance northeast of the north end of the Masson Range, Antarctica. It was First sighted from the crow's nest of the Discovery on 3 January 1930, during British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-31) and again seen from the airplane on 5 January 1930. The position was first plotted and the mountain named by BANZARE on 14 February 1931 by the leader of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition - Mawson, who named it after in 1929 W. Henderson, Director of the Australian Department of External Affairs, and a member of the Australian Antarctic Committee.

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