Mount Herschel
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 The Mount Herschel from Hallett Cape seen |
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| height | 3335 m | |
| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Admiralty Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | 1967 by Edmund Hillary and others | |
 Map sheet with Mount Herschel |
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The Mount Herschel (also Mount Herschell written) is a striking, 3335 m high mountain in the Admiralty Mountains of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . On the Borchgrevink coast, it rises 2.6 km northeast of Mount Peacock and south of the mouth of the Ironside Glacier in Moubray Bay .
The British polar explorer James Clark Ross discovered him in 1841 during his Antarctic expedition (1839-1841). Ross named it after the British astronomer John Herschel (1792–1871).
In 1967 the mountain was first climbed by a group of climbers, including Edmund Hillary , the first to climb Mount Everest .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Herschel ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ The Britannica Guide to Explorers and Explorations That Changed the Modern World . Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1-61530-065-1 , pp. 264 (English).