Mount Morrison is a

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northeast of Mount Best, in the

Tula Mountains The Tula Mountains are a group of extensive mountains lying immediately eastward of Amundsen Bay in Enderby Land, Antarctica. They were discovered on January 14, 1930, by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) ...

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in Antarctica. It was plotted from air photos taken from

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aircraft in 1956 and was named by the

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for Murdo Campbell Morrison, from Lionel,

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, a member of the crew of the ''

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'' during the

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of 1929–31.

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Mountains of Enderby Land {{EnderbyLand-geo-stub