Mount Menzies [SEP] continent
Mount Menzies
Mount Menzies is the culminating peak (3,355 m; 11,007 ft) on the large massif between Mount Mather and Mount Bayliss, standing on the south side of Fisher Glacier, Antarctica. It was sighted by Flying Officer J. Seaton from an ANARE Beaver aircraft in 1956, and mapped by an ANARE southern seismic party under K.B. Mather in 1957–58. Mount Menzies was named by ANCA after the Rt. Hon. Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, 1939–41 and 1949–66.
First Ascent.
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a race, was the inaugural co-winner in 2004.
Higher Australian mountains.
Higher peaks exist within territory administered or claimed by Australia: outside the continent are Mawson Peak () on Heard Island and Dome Argus (), Mount McClintock () and Mount Menzies () in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
In popular culture.
Australian rock band Midnight Oil performed a song called "Kosciusko" on its 1984 album "Red Sails in the Sunset", referring to the mountain. The spelling was updated