Mount Tokoroa () is a massive snow-covered

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. It is on a spur of the Explorers Range,

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, standing 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of the summit of Mount Soza at the junction of the

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and

Carryer Glacier Carryer Glacier is a heavily crevassed tributary glacier, long, which drains westward from the central part of the Bowers Mountains and enters Rennick Glacier between Mount Soza and Mount Gow, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The glacier was named by th ...

s. Mapped by the

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(USGS)

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party, 1962–63, and named by members of this party for the village of Tokoroa,

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, in recognition of its kindness to

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(USARP) personnel.

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Mount Tokoroa
on

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website
Mount Tokoroa
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Mount Tokoroa
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Mount Tokoroa area map

on peakvisor

References

Mountains of Victoria Land Pennell Coast {{VictoriaLand-geo-stub