Mount Allen Young
| Mount Allen Young | ||
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| height | 2755 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Holland Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Allen Young is a prominent pyramid-shaped mountain with a height of 2755 m in the Holland Range in the Transantarctic Mountains south of the Fegley and west of the Lennox-King Glacier .
The mountain was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . He was named after the polar explorer Sir Allen Young (1827-1915), captain of the Fox in Francis Leopold McClintock's search expedition after the missing Franklin expedition and head of the successful search expedition to Benjamin Leigh Smith in 1882.
See also
Web links
- Mount Allen Young in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Allen Young on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Allen Young. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts: Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 41 (English)