Mount Christchurch
| Mount Christchurch | ||
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| height | 1355 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 164 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Christchurch is a 1355 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Shackleton coast, it rises as the northernmost elevation of the Queen Elizabeth Range 11 km southwest of Cape Lyttelton on the south side of Shackleton Inlet .
Participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered him. Scott named it after the New Zealand city of Christchurch , whose magistrate and residents had supported the research trip .
Web links
- Mount Christchurch in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Christchurch on geographic.org (English)