Mount Christmas
| Mount Christmas | ||
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| height | 1745 m | |
| location | East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Nash Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 161 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Christmas ( English for Christmas Mountain) is an evenly pointed mountain with a height of 1745 m (according to other information 1889 m ) on the Shackleton coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 16.7 km west-southwest of Cape May in the Nash Range of the Transantarctic Mountains .
The mountain was discovered during the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901-1904) under Robert Falcon Scott , so named because it was the most prominent geographic object in sight on Christmas Day 1902.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Christmas in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica . Retrieved December 24, 2010.
- ↑ a b Mount Christmas ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved December 24, 2010.