Mount Chalmers
| Mount Chalmers | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Conway Range , Cook Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 159 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Chalmers is a mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It rises 8 km south of the summit of Mount Keltie from the eastern elevation of the Conway Range .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. It is named after Robert Chalmers, 1st Baron Chalmers (1858–1938), from 1903 to 1907 Deputy Secretary of the British Treasury .
Web links
- Mount Chalmers in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Chalmers on geographic.org (English)