Mount FL Smith

Mount FL Smith
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height	2635  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 169 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount FL Smith is a 2635  m high mountain in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it rises about 1.6 km northeast of Mount Fox .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. Shackleton named him after Finlay L. Smith (1829-1911), a Scottish tobacco producer and sponsor of the research trip.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount FL Smith in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount FL Smith on geographic.org (English)
• Mount FL Smith. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 130. (English)