Mount Hamilton (Churchill Mountains)
| Mount Hamilton | ||
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| height | 1990 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ S , 158 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Mount Hamilton is a 1990 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises in the Churchill Mountains around 11 km south of Mount Tuatara on the eastern edge of the Kent Plateau .
Participants in the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott discovered the mountain and named it after Admiral Richard Vesey Hamilton (1829-1912), who had participated in several Arctic trips between 1850 and 1854 and was a member of the committee to equip the Discovery Expedition's research vessel.
Web links
- Mount Hamilton in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hamilton on geographic.org (English)