Mount Ellis
| Mount Ellis | ||
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| height | 2330 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Darwin Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 156 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Ellis is a mountain in the Australian Antarctic Territory . At 2330 m , it is the highest mountain in the Darwin Mountains in the Transantarctic Mountains . It rises on the northern edge of the Midnight Plateau .
The team to explore the Darwin Glacier in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) mapped and named him. Namesake is the New Zealand engineer Murray Roland Ellis (1923-2005), who was part of Edmund Hillary's team on this expedition for the journey to the geographic South Pole.
Web links
- Mount Ellis in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ellis on geographic.org (English)