Mount McCallum

Mount McCallum (

71°1′S 162°45′E / 71.017°S 162.750°E / -71.017; 162.750Coordinates: 71°1′S 162°45′E / 71.017°S 162.750°E / -71.017; 162.750) is a peak rising to about 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) immediately northwest of the 2,590-metre (8,500 ft) Mount Marwick, in the Explorers Range of the Bowers Mountains in Antarctica. Following a proposal by , leader of a New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme geological party to the area, 1981–82, the mountain was named after New Zealand scientist and mountaineer , who worked in Antarctica in the 1963–64 season, and who perished in an avalanche on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand, in 1981.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Mount McCallum". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)