Mount Buckley
| Mount Buckley | ||
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| height | 2645 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Buckley is an ice-free summit with a height of 2645 m (according to New Zealand data 2555 m ) and the highest point on Buckley Island in the middle of the Antarctic Beardmore Glacier .
He was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under Ernest Shackleton . Like Buckley Island, it is named after the New Zealand sheep farmer George Alexander McLean Buckley (1866–1937), one of the sponsors of the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Mount Buckley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Buckley on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Buckley. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 74 (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 241 (English).