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Mount Hussey
Mount Hussey is located in Antarctica
Mount Hussey
Mount Hussey
Location in Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation 2,790 m (9,150 ft)
Geography
Location Borchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent range Victory Mountains, Gruendler Glacier

Mount Hussey is a mountain 2,790 metres (9,150 ft) high, rising from the spur at the head of Gruendler Glacier, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Keith M. Hussey, a geologist at McMurdo Station, 1966–67.

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