Mount Clarke
| Mount Clarke | ||
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| height | 3210 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Barton Mountains , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 172 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Clarke is a 3210 m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Barton Mountains of Queen Maud Mountains, it rises on the eastern edge of the Snakeskin Glacier near the edge of the central polar plateau and 21 km west of Mount Iveagh .
Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. It is named after Rupert Clarke (1865–1926), one of the private sponsors of the expedition, who is also the namesake of the Antarctic Clarke Glacier .
See also
Web links
- Mount Clarke in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Clarke on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Clarke. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 85 (English)