Mount Henry (Ross Dependency)

Mount Henry
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height	1675  m
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Commonwealth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	83 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 83 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 172 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  E

Mount Henry is a 1675  m high and pointed mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Commonwealth Range, it rises 6.5 km southeast of Mount Kyffin on the eastern flank of the Beardmore Glacier .

The south pole group of the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the direction of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton discovered him. The naming is not known. Shackleton's father, Henry Shackleton (1847–1920), is believed to be the namesake.

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Mount Henry in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Mount Henry on geographic.org (English)