Mount Darwin (Antarctica)
| Mount Darwin | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 85 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 8 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Darwin is a prominent, but only low, ice-free mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 8 km west-southwest of Mount Bowers at the beginning of the Beardmore Glacier near the polar plateau .
The mountain was discovered by participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . It is named after Leonard Darwin (1850–1943), then President of the Royal Geographical Society .
See also
Web links
- Mount Darwin in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Darwin on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Darwin. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 100 (English)