Mount Homard

Mount Homard
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height	1200 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Shackleton Range
Coordinates	80 ° 39 '4 " S , 29 ° 49' 57" W Coordinates: 80 ° 39 '4 " S , 29 ° 49' 57" W

Mount Homard is a mountain in Coatsland, East Antarctica . It rises 1200 m high at the head of the Blaiklock Glacier in the western part of the Shackleton Range about 3 km south of the Trey Peaks . The mountain is the highest point in the Otter Highlands .

It was mapped in 1957 by participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs . It is named after Desmond Edgar Lemuel Homard (1921–2015), engineer of the advance team and member of the team who managed to cross the Antarctic continent for the first time by land on this research trip .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 749 (English).
↑ Major Desmond 'Roy' Homard, explorer-obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph , June 18, 2015 (accessed January 28, 2015).

[1] John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 749 (English).

[2] Major Desmond 'Roy' Homard, explorer-obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph , June 18, 2015 (accessed January 28, 2015).