Mount Albert Markham
| Mount Albert Markham | ||
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| height | 3205 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Albert Markham is a mountain of 3,205 m height with a conspicuously flattened summit , which looms between Mount Nares and Pyramid Mountain in the Churchill Mountains . Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904), led by British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, discovered the mountain and named it after Albert Hastings Markham (1841–1918), an admiral in the Royal Navy , who served on the committee to equip the research vessel of the expedition had listened to.
Web links
- Mount Albert Markham in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Albert Markham on geographic.org (English)