Mount Donaldson

Mount Donaldson
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height	3930  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Donaldson is a 3930  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Commonwealth Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises around 8 km north-northeast of the Flat Top and west of the face of the Ludeman Glacier .

The southern group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered and named him. It is named after Isabella Donaldson (* 1885), a British theater actress who Shackleton met on the return trip from the expedition to England.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Donaldson in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Donaldson on geographic.org (English)