Mount Egerton (Antarctica)
| Mount Egerton | ||
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| height | 2830 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 157 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Egerton is a 2830 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 3 miles north-northwest of Mount Field in the Churchill Mountains .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered the mountain and named it after the naval officer George Le Clerc Egerton (1852–1940), a participant in the British Arctic Expedition (1875–1876) under George Nares .
Web links
- Mount Egerton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Egerton on geographic.org (English)