Mount Coleman (Antarctica)
| Mount Coleman | ||
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| height | 1110 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Asgard Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Coleman is a 1,110 m high and rounded mountain in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . As the highest point of the MacDonald Hills in the Asgard Range, it rises immediately east of the Commonwealth Glacier at the head of the New Harbor .
Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. Charles Seymour Wright (1887–1975), the Canadian physicist on the expedition, named it after the Canadian geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman (1852–1939).
Web links
- Mount Coleman in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Coleman on geographic.org (English)