Mount Harcourt

Mount Harcourt
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height	1535  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Harcourt is a 1,535  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It rises about 8 km east of Mount Kyffin in the Commonwealth Range .

Participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. The mountain is named after the British politician Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt (1878-1962), a member of the lower house of the Liberal Party , who had campaigned for the British government to support the Nimrod expedition financially.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Harcourt in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Harcourt on geographic.org (English)
• Mount Harcourt. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 151 (English)