Mount Hope (East Antarctica)
| Mount Hope | ||
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.jpg) Mount Hope (left) in December 1908 |
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| height | 835 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 83 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ S , 171 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| First ascent | December 3, 1908 by Ernest Shackleton , Jameson Adams , Frank Wild and Eric Marshall | |
The Mount Hope is a 835 m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Shackleton coast, it rises in the mouth of the Beardmore Glacier into the Ross Ice Shelf . He was discovered on December 2, 1908 by a group of four around the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton during the Nimrod expedition he led (1907-1909) while trying to reach the geographic South Pole .
Shackleton and his companions climbed the mountain the next day in the hope (English: hope ), "[...] a [better] to obtain impression of the surrounding landscape" and to find a route for the way south through the Transantarctic Mountains . This hope was fulfilled after they discovered the Beardmore Glacier from the mountain top and the access via the so-called Gateway . Shackleton and his team did reach the polar plateau , but had to turn back about 180 km from the destination on the way to the South Pole due to insufficient equipment, dwindling supplies and increasing exhaustion.
Three years later, the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott chose the same route during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) he led . He and his four companions reached the South Pole, but were killed on the way back.
See also
literature
- Ernest Shackleton : The Heart of the Antarctic . William Heinemann, London 1909 (English, Volume I: archive.org and Volume II: archive.org ).
- Kelly Tyler-Lewis: The Lost Men. The Harrowing Story of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party. Bloomsbury, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-7972-4 .
- RL Oliver et al .: Antarctic earth science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1983, ISBN 0-521-25836-7 .
Web links
- Mount Hope in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Hope on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Hope (Antarctica) in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ^ Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic. Volume I. 1909, pp. 304–305 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ) Quotation: “ […] to gain a view of the surrounding country. ”
- ^ Occupation of Cape Evans By the Trans Antarctic Expedition. (No longer available online.) Antarctic Heritage Trust, archived from the original on June 6, 2014 ; accessed on June 19, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tyler-Lewis, The Lost Men. 2007, p. 146.
