Mount Bonaparte
| Mount Bonaparte | ||
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| height | 3430 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Bonaparte is a mountain with a height of 3430 m in the Queen Elizabeth Range in the Transantarctic Mountains , which is about 6.5 kilometers south of Mount Lecointe . West of Mount Bonaparte is the Bartrum Plateau , an icy, 18 km long and 10 km wide plateau .
The mountain was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under Ernest Shackleton . It is named after the French scientist Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924), then president of the Société de Géographie .
See also
Web links
- Mount Bonaparte in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Bonaparte on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Bonaparte. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts: Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 65 (English)