Mount Emily

Mount Emily
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height	3048  m
location	Antarctica
Mountains	Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	86 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 86 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  S , 174 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Emily is a 3,048  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises as a crag 3 km north of Mount Cecily in the Grosvenor Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains .

The mountain was discovered during the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton , but initially erroneously assigned to the Dominion Range . Mount Emily is separated from this by the Mill Glacier . Shackleton named the mountain after his wife Emily Dawson-Lambton Shackleton (1868–1936).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Emily in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Emily on geographic.org
• Mount Emily. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 120. (English)