Mount Maines | |
Elevation M: | 2190 |
Location: | Enderby Land, East Antarctica |
Range: | Napier Mountains |
Type: | Metamorphic |
Age: | 2837 million years (Archaean eon) |
Easiest Route: | basic snow/ice climb |
Mount Maines, also known as Stornuten, is a mountain, 2190m (7,190feet), standing roughly 13km (08miles) SE of Stor Hånakken Mountain and 10km (10miles) W of Mount Elkins in the Napier Mountains, Enderby Land.[1]
Mount Maines was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, and named Stornuten (the big peak). Rephotographed by ANARE in 1956 and renamed by ANCA for R.L. Maines, cook at Wilkes Station in 1961.[1]