Mount Henderson (Holme Bay)


Mount Henderson is a massive mountain, high, rising through the ice sheet 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 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.